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...deal with religious mysteries in fiction. His stratagem is to leave the I very existence of such mysteries an open question. As a faith healer Bebb is certainly half a fraud, and possibly two halves of one. But Antonio accepts Bebb without worrying much about his genuineness, and the reader is left with the lightest and least insistent of uncertainties. Another question is left, too: whether this indefiniteness is merely tact, or a measure of the author's own uncertainty. However a reader may decide that, Frederick Buechner is a talented writer clearly bound somewhere, and an interesting...
...longer one lives, the more shame one has to experience." The old Japanese saying was quoted by a Tokyo reader, Goro Hara, in a letter to the English-language Japan Times. To a degree almost incomprehensible to Westerners, Japanese last week were still caught up in shock, shame and rage over the massacre at Israel's Lod Airport by three young Japanese radicals...
...dream memory, it is by no means coincidental. For the language of dreams mediates between Cuscat's life as he actually lived it and Wilson's imaginative portrait of this life. The documents and folk tales, the social details and visual images only let him help the reader see and hear the story. To help us understand it, he must relive the story through dreams. "For whatever the reason," Wilson explains, "a story comes to have particular weight for us, its equations are, for a time, our equations. We dream it. And so we bear the story a while, until...
DELILLO'S NOVEL operates through deadpan-absurdist humor, and brute suspense. Names, conversations, non-sequitur events become progressively more other-worldly (sub-rather than sur-real) and the concatenations of bewildering vignettes are glued together only by the reader's curiosity. But all the while, DeLillo demonstrates his golden ear for the tin and tinsel of Americanese, and many of his dialogues skewer perfectly the soft spots in academic double-talk, adolescent vagueness, the jargon of nuclear warfare (as in Herman Kahn's own book of the dead. On Thermonuclear War), public relations yes-speak, and the excruciatingly serious military...
Instead, Ponti went to Germany and enrolled at the Frankfurt Conservatory. There he began his penchant for marathon practicing-but only of actual compositions. "I never did exercises and scales in my life," he says. "I'm not even a particularly good sight reader. There's no secret to my technique: I just work hard and play the literature...