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Alias Sapo. In his tepid way, he tells himself little stories to while away the time. Or perhaps he writes them, since he keeps the stub of a pencil, sharpened at both ends, and a notebook in his room. One story concerns Mr. Saposcat (Sapo for short, and Homo sapiens, of course) and his wife, who worry about whether their teen-age son will pass some sort of exam. Another is about a farm family that happens to bury a mule. Even though Malone becomes Saposcat temporarily, these episodes dribble into nothingness in keeping with Beckett's conviction that...
...Norberto D'Allessandri to Zurich to take care of Terbita. D'Allessandri conducted affairs well, for he soon drove a Jaguar, took an expensive apartment. Yet when tax officials called, D'Allessandri could show them no books. Swiss police then raided his headquarters and found a notebook that disclosed a thriving business-not in antiques but in contraband smuggling of strategic goods to Eastern Europe...
...sound technicians to desperation. In Chicago, a veteran journalist sprinkles his news conference questions with profanity ("Damn it, Senator, what the hell are we gonna do about the farm surplus?"). Another complies willingly when asked to pose for a reporter-at-work shot, then scrawls large obscenities into his notebook under the camera. In Los Angeles, ingenious still photographers-who are on the reporters' side-have found that a stroboscopic light flashed directly into a live camera will usually blind the TV tube momentarily and then throw a ten-minute glaze over the evil...
...Mencken had a lifetime habit of jotting down iconoclastic notes to himself for use in future essays. Stuffed away and forgotten, they were found shortly before his death early this year and assembled as his final book. Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebook (293 pp.; Knopf; $3.95) is a last lusty Bronx cheer at the muscular pessimist of Baltimore. Some samples...
...Shore Show and on a radio news cast. (His grateful employers spent an estimated $4,000 building him a personal horn for his personal Chevvie; it plays the commercial jingle: "See the U.S.A. in a Chevrolet.") He has also parlayed his voice into the radio program Art.Baker's Notebook, on the air since...