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...Adam Krug, attempt to escape with his little son from a communo-fascist state in Eastern Europe to America. Krug imagines David growing into a teenager, playing the strange game of baseball. He imagines him as a man of 40. When David is killed by thugs, Nabokov himself cannot bear it: Krug goes mad, sees his creator is a benevolent artist, and the book ends...
...teacher mourning Matthew Shepard; but then I recalled also that Nabokov lost his own brother, whom the Nazis arrested and killed because he was gay. Literature, unlike philosophy, is not a consolation. When in Armenia they mourn a child, parents cry, "May I be the one to bear your pain!" They can't and Heaven can't hear the howl. Oh, Matthew Shepard, tsaved tanem...
...there is a lot out there to digest. Yet for all the new books, bear in mind that they don't have all the answers either. Parenting involves a lot of common sense, which books can encourage but can't create from scratch. As Dr. Spock wisely said, "You know more than you think you do." Not enough to win yourself a book contract, maybe, but enough to pick and choose what works best for you from all these other tomes...
...casinos won't help those numbers. "The Bellagio will do great, but we have had to downgrade all casino stocks in the past quarter," says analyst Jason Ader of Bear Stearns. "We doubt the new construction will earn the returns of the last wave--18% to 22%. We're forecasting...
...Brian is also a shameless wag, who early in the series has the hulking Aubrey escape overland from the French disguised as a dancing bear, led by Maturin as bear trainer, and who is not above calling a ferocious Spanish xebec-frigate defeated by Aubrey the Cacafuego, which means exactly what first-year Spanish students think it means (s___-fire...