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...heiresses who started him on his way to fortune. Because Max was considered one of the cleverest boys in the city he was selected as the bridegroom for lively, warm-hearted Dinah, daughter of a small manufacturer. But she loved Yakob who was attracted to her. In half-primitive, backward Lodz, periodically split by savage strikes of the Jewish and German weavers, by pogroms that were encouraged by the Tsarist police, the two brothers soon became business rivals. Max coldly divorced Dinah in order to marry a woman whose fortune would aid his plans. Yakob thereupon married...
...awake and has a nose for news. None of the northwest metropolitan newspapers that came to my attention gave this convention and celebration any notice whatever, either before, during or after the gathering. Practically all of the northwest newspapers are reactionary and, like Lot's wife, are looking backward. The Hoover era to them means happy days never to be forgotten and they sigh for their return...
...surface when they heard the rotten timbering begin to crack. They filled up the wheelbarrow once more. On the way out Father Kuklinskie heard the earth breaking up over his head, felt it falling on his shoulders. He ran, dragging his pick to safety. But in one glance backward he saw Son Enoch flop under the wheelbarrow as the avalanche of coal and rock descended...
...curse of banality off this sober theme. It is divided into 54 episodes, each episode dated, but the dates related in an emotional rather than chronological pattern. Thus the first episode takes place in 1933, the second in 1934, the third in 1933, the fourth in 1902. These backward glances are intended to illuminate, in some consequential happening in the past, the buried influences that determine a character's conduct at the present moment. The glimpses ahead in turn show how his reactions at present mould his decisions in the future...
...like a meditative child. His particular artistic dislike is Proust, for he considers Proust's absorption with the past repellent and perverse. Anthony is living with resentful, brown-haired Helen Ledwidge in the south of France when the story opens, and he has, Author Huxley establishes with his backward glances, good reasons for avoiding a clear look at his own past behavior. Helen and Anthony are making carefree love on the roof when a grotesque accident violently deflects the course of their lives. A dog falls from an airplane flying overhead. "A strange yelping sound punctuated...