Word: offing
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After he's rescued, Agathon dies of the plague, contracted from the rats in his cell. He has managed, though, to communicate his philosophy (or lack of one) to Demodokos, and in that there is hope. We identify with Agathon, not because he is a fashionable anti-hero, but because...
Gardner sees more in Agathon than just a chaotic life force. The word Agathon means "the good." Despite Agathon's death the wreckage of the good is not complete. Agathon believes he has failed to make the stone-eared universe listen to his ravings, but he has passed his message...
GARDNER strives to be cosmic, rather than merely relevant, and though he fails, he fails in a good cause. His style is excellent, occasionally lyrical, often funny. The difference between the prose of Agathon and Demodokos, and thus between their characters, is skillfully handled. The characterization of Agathon is a...
It takes more than an intelligent novelist to bring off what Gardner has attempted. That "good" exists in filth and inspired lunacy is a common enough idea; Agathon is a good personification of it. To prove that good can rise from its wreckage and triumph requires a breadth of vision...
The Center for International Affairs yesterday declined an invitation to debate the CFIA's right to exist with members of SDS and the University Action Group. The proposal for a debate next Monday came from the Harvard Advocate.