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...Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary definitions of Puritanism: “The haunting feeling that someone, somewhere, might be happy” and Puritan: “A pious gentleman, who believed in letting all people do as he liked,” as the epigraph to a column entitled “The Smoke-Free Path to Hell.” And in criticism of Massachusetts’ recently-repealed blue laws, pundits’ wrath often fell on, yes, our forefathers and -mothers, whose vision of a city on a hill didn?...
...almost always a mistake to give a novel more than one epigraph. Harris gives Pompeii three, two of which draw parallels between the supremacy of ancient Rome and the current hyperpower of the U.S. Does he intend us to read the devastation of Pompeii as somehow analogous to the attacks of 9/11? A divine check on the hubris of empire? The connection feels reckless at best. Sometimes a volcano is just a volcano. --By Lev Grossman
...which Fetterman refers was created by Watkins, with help from roommate Alice T. Yang ’03. The colorful chart featured a color-coded legend to distinguish “hookups” from “relationships,” as well as an epigraph from Gahan: “I told you all to love each other, but not this much.” Watkins’ inspiration for the chart was a Harvard Magazine article by Adam Goodheart ’92, which fondly recalled his freshman year “sex chart?...
...instance, is compiling a book that divides the world into people and things with "Jewish" traits (including poplar trees, Jimmy Stewart and John Lennon) and "goyish" traits (including oak trees, Elvis fans and the Jewish troubadour Leonard Cohen). It's inspired by a Lenny Bruce riff, the novel's epigraph, but it becomes a predictable dog-people-vs.-cat-people dichotomy. In her narrative Smith acknowledges and dismisses the pop-psychological interpretations that Alex's book invites--"The Mixed-race people see things double theory and the fatherless children seek out restored symmetry [theory]"--but this is just a self...
...more telling indicator of this novel’s flavor is the Sanskrit epigraph with which the author, herself, chooses to begin the tale...