Word: fragments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...After reading a book on sunken treasures, Mark becomes obsessed with finding a ship laden with the spoils of Peru that went down en route to the Caribbean in 1820. Years of research, to the exclusion of his schoolwork and to his father's growing annoyance, yield the final fragment of the puzzle. Mark knows he must go to Santa Catalina, a small out island in the Bahamas, where he will surely strike it rich...
...received the distinction of second place. The judges took 40 minutes to reach their decision, and announced that each of the contestants had an advocate in the deliberations. Nicole Galland, who presented LeGuin's "The Ones Who Walk from Omelas"; Joseph Krailik, who chose Eliot's "Sweeney Agonistes: Fragment of an Agon"; Randloph McGrorty, who delivered Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"; Philip Resnik, who recited Rilke's "Duino Elegies"; and Jeffrey Rosen, who enacted Cicero's "The Verine Orations," all deserve recognition of their oratory skills for becoming finalists in this competition...
...terraces hug the slope, relaxed and vaguely mock-ancient, not abrasive Disneyland replicas. As ever, Hollein succeeds in pleasing with the highly particular small space, the odd cutout corner or voluptuous semicircular marble stair. Monchengladbach has the virtuoso exuberance of a big, ambitious first novel, brimming with every story fragment and shimmery turn of phrase the author can muster...
...inch jawbone fragment that was unearthed dates back five million years--a million years earlier than any other previously discovered hominid, or member of the human family...
...Carl, of course. It is a fragment of Carl, deputized with a brief memory. It is a crystal of Carl, like one in the ice palace of Superman's heritage from Krypton. Carl, at that moment in any case, is elsewhere. Carl has proliferated a little. His flagship self is steaming across town on some business, plowing along through conventional time. His ancillary self, his butler self, the ghost in the machine, is waiting in its little timelessness...