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...Then there is the grandeur," said Toni Morrison. Sure, the sentence is just one of many from Chapter One of Morrison's new novel Paradise, read by the author to an audience of several hundred in Faneuil Hall last Wednesday night. This particular phrase is unique, though, because through it the novelist perfectly encapsulated the listener's experience of her own reading...
Morrison chose to read the opening chapter of Paradise because, to her mind, that chapter more than the others "can stand alone" from the rest of the text. The strange truth is that the selection actually works better as a separate entity than it does as an entrance into her book...
...Chapter 1934 of the great visitors book which men call History many a potent human being scrawled his name the twelvemonth past. But no man, however long his arm, could write his name so big as the name written by the longer arm of mankind. Neither micrometer nor yardstick was necessary to determine that the name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt was written bigger, blacker, bolder than all the rest...
Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison read the first chapter of her new novel,Paradise,to a packed audience which included about 50 Harvard students yesterday in downtown Boston's Faneuil Hall...
...fair, though, I should mention a few of the positives of------writing. For one thing, lectures become much, much more interesting as any subject outside of your dedicated area seems to present new meaning in life. Another plus is the feeling of accomplishment when you have finished a chapter and, I imagine, when the entire project is complete. Finally, It provides you with a good excuse--procrastination--to do many things you would not do otherwise, i.e. exercise and room-cleaning...