Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paradox Ahead." Yet it appears that Fogel's story never existed in a coherent written form. The insane narrator is eventually removed to a hospital for the criminally insane, and his father tells the police that his son's manuscript was nothing but pages of wavy lines, zigzags, dots, loops and dashes...
...prisoner stands in the modern, well-lighted classroom and begins self consciously to read from his manuscript. It is the rollicking story of a predawn police raid on the upstate New York home of LSD Guru Timothy Leary. The informally dressed audience - 29 other inmates and an instructor who is himself an ex-con - laughs appreciatively at the description of troopers peering inside, hoping for a glimpse of porno films but seeing only flickering psychedelic lights. When the cops finally storm the place, they find no orgy, no mob of spaced-out kids. Instead, Leary, dressed in white pajamas, comes...
...story of Ezra Pound's great hearted help to Eliot in the early London years is familiar, especially since the recent discovery of Eliot's original Waste Land manuscript with Pound's extensive excisions and imperious editorial notes. In dealing with it, Matthews tends to overvalue many of the lines Pound cut and to assume that if Pound had failed him, Eliot would never have got round to cutting them himself...
LANGSTON HUGHES once told a story about a manuscript he submitted to a "well-known anthologist." The short story came back from the editor with a letter full of praise, but saying that the characters were not clearly white or black. Would Hughes make them definitely Negro? The re-editing did not take long. Hughes simply inserted "black" in front of the word "man" and "Brown skin" in front of the girl's name and the story was accepted. "Just a plain story about human beings," as Hughes called it, was not acceptable from a black writer. But you have...
...also triumphant proof that high art and decoration can often be the same. The panels of the Apocalypse obey the conventions of medieval miniature painting: the schematic rocks and grass, the abstract wallpaper patterns in the sky. The artist, Hennequin of Bruges, actually based it on an illuminated manuscript. Yet the design of an episode like St. Michael's casting down of Satan and the rebel angels has an epic amplitude: the heavens part in a frill of white clouds, and from it the archangel plunges down to drive his spear into the seven-headed Beast; the coiling rush...