Word: masterplan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This assault on mechanical modernism--one of Barth's correspondents describes "those symbol-fraught Swiss watches and Schwarzwald cuckoo clocks of Modernism"--hardly fits a novel that follows a schematic masterplan. You see, if you take the seven letters of the title-word "letters," superimpose them on a seven-month calendar using a quaint motto, so that the letters of the motto form the letters of "letters," then each letter of the motto will fall neatly onto a date in the calendar, one for each of the letters in the book...
...plotted and schemed in dark corners and at locker room blackboards fro five uninspirational years, hoping at each turn in the road that the solution, the missing link, the lost piece in the jigsaw puzzle would stumble against his feet, and allow at long last his masterplan to reach a productive and manifest fruition. Harry, who was to bring the Big B into vogue in Cambridge, and make the James Browns and Floyd Lewises into superhuman and unquestioned BMOCs. Harry, who hoped to transform the phone booth gymnasium perched atop the ancient. IAB complex like an ascetic's mountain retreat...