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Your constant reference to Governor Ross Barnett as "Ross" broke all rules of good journalism and conveniently confused the reader between myself--"Boss Burt"--and Governor Barnett, "Bumbling Ross...
...comes in a box. "The reader," explain the instructions, "is requested to shuffle these pages like a pack of cards. The order the pages then assume will orient X's life." But who will orient the reader? For the pages are unnumbered, and X himself is never referred to except in the instructions. He does not speak. He is never described. He is an unmoved viewer of objective scenes into whose visions only the barest and rarest hints of emotion are allowed to creep-resignation at being yoked to Marianne, his mercilessly neurotic French wife; pain at the loss...
...owes much to his use of the literary come-on. On one page, for example, Dagmar is seen standing next to a Christmas tree. "Through the tree's branches," writes Saporta, "Dagmar looks like one more fantastic toy . . . She is naked." The page ends there. The reader-at least the male reader-turns expectantly to the next page. No Dagmar. And turn or shuffle as he will, he never gets to the other side of that Christmas tree...
Great & Strong. But before a reader lays down his $12.50 and places My Life & Loves beside Fanny Hill on his bedside shelf, he should be warned that as a stylist, Harris is no match for Cleland. Along about the seventh seduction it becomes apparent that all of Harris' women are the same-defeated enemies who surrender to his massive virility. "Oh, you great, strong dear!" cries his first conquest-and so, for 87 chapters, cry all the others (about 100, by rough count). For the discriminating reader, there is one way of telling them apart: as Harris got older...
...patient smiles." Sobbing with vexation, he shouts, "Matty, Dave, I want to have this thing out right now! This whole goddamn thing!" But they are not listening. Finally he suffers a breakdown and flees Bloodbury and family. When the doctor comes to see him, he is leafing through the Reader's Digest, idly looking for clues to his failure...