Word: obsesses
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...zigzagged between the Zu rich of Dada, Lenin and Joyce, and the Vienna of Freud, finally earning a Ph.D. in chemistry. But the young doctor chose literature instead of laboratories. Auto-da-Fé (1935), published on the eve of Hitler's Anschluss, initiated the theme that would obsess Canetti over four decades: how to pay close attention to the world...
...like to conform, and the fever builds first in his belly and then in his head, making him restless like an animal and nervous like a killer. He hates New York with Biblical fury. Its livid neons, the gaudy robes of the pimps, and the twisting, seething shadows obsess him with a vision of hell...
...hanging in a Belfast jail, Irish. The whorehouse-declaimed by society as a sinful place-is inhabited by a gang of cheerful, extremely humane eccentries who live by their own particular moral code. Acutely aware of Ireland's volatile political atmosphere, they (with a few exceptions), nevertheless refuse to obsess themselves with politics. Several of them differ in race, nationality, class, and sexual preference, yet they express little prejudice. When the British prisoner enters their happy abide, the whorehouse tenants-to the outrage of the I.R.A. captors treat him with warmth and sympathy, their simple compassion out-weighs the national...