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...Three of Wright??s nine baskets came off picks set for Lin, who then dished it to Wright as he rolled to the basket...
...room was packed with excited students, tutors, and even the House Master’s wife and daughter, who watched Wright??s card tricks, rope illusions, and ring acrobatics with amazement...
Wright said that when he works as a nighttime guard in Pfoho, students often come to the office to watch him perform. It was Robb Fitzsimmons ’10, a late-night regular in the dining hall, who decided to put the show together to share Wright??s magic, which he called “pretty amazing stuff,” with the whole Pfoho community...
...abstract to a world the reader knows.One of the many references made throughout these poems is to Gerald Manley Hopkins, the 19th-century British poet and Jesuit Priest. Hopkins himself struggled to understand the world and did so by finding God behind the exquisite beauty he saw in nature. Wright??s poems find beauty as well, but his world view is much more nebulous than that of Hopkins. “Who was it who first said, ‘The kingfisher falls through fire’?” asks Wright, twisting around the opening line...
...this line off not once, but twice.The figure of Wright provides the punctuation mark to a narrative that is told from almost every perspective except his own. The central character’s silence creates a whirling vacuum of misplaced, fervid emotion, as every other character struggles to ensnare Wright??s interest and attention. The foremost question of the book (what is Wright really thinking?) is never answered: instead we begin with the ruminations of Sato Tadashi, a fictional apprentice of Wright??s. Tadashi’s first-person narration frames the third-person of Wright?...