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Then there is Autobiography, which is meant for monophonic tape and a "visible but silent author." Menelaiad, on the other hand, "depends for clarity on the reader's eye and may be said to have been composed for 'printed voice,' " which may or may not mean that it is to be read aloud-silently...
Between matchbook advertising copy and the immaculate fictions of Jorge Luis Borges, there comes a pause in a compulsive reader's occupations known as the literary curiosity. Casually indulged, it often reaffirms the battered belief that reading can be one of life's simpler pleasures...
...impeded in the great majority of human beings by ignorance, superstition, preconceptions, errors, by bad laws and bad institutions--in short, by bad environment. But the capacity for reason was there . . . give it a good environment and it will flower as nature meant it to flower. --Age of Reason Reader...
...Combat's attempts to link two or three people to oldtime Communism are not very imaginative. Columbia University's new acting president, Andrew Cordier, confided Combat, was "one of Otto Otepka's State Department security cases, also involved in the Bang-Jensen case." Even a reader with a long memory for such things is likely to be puzzled...
Fourteen lines follow this breathless passage before the sentence finally reaches a period. Even the reader who has earned his explorer's badge in trackless writing may have some initial trouble with such prose. Giuseppe Berto, whose writing career began in 1948 with an excellent war novel, The Sky Is Red, unveiled his new nonstop style in Incubus (TIME, Feb. 4, 1966), a remorseless account of a screenwriter's experience with psychoanalysis. Paradoxically, the method turns out to be better suited to a much more commonplace story, where radical style refreshes a traditional subject...