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Littlejohn rambles on in this vein for ten tedious pages. The reader, however, can conquer the tedium by letting his mind wander and try to guess whose style Littlejohn is trying to imitate...
...unearthed by his scholarship. It often takes on a sparkle completely its own--"Still George III clung... like a molusc (a molusc who never found his rock)." But Namier is an historical technician as well as a prose artist. The special merit of Namier's work is that the reader is placed as close to the evidence as is the historian...
...dogs, screened the visitors and tended the vegetable gardens that they planted almost anywhere the two of them lived. She knitted the shapeless woolen garments and heavy woolen stockings Gertrude favored. She seems, in fact, to have disappeared virtually without a trace into Gertrude Stein's life. The reader never learns, for instance, what became of her father (her mother died when she was young) or her younger brother. After her departure from San Francisco back in 1907, she returned only once - and that was with Gertrude Stein on a lecture tour...
Before dismissing the whole thing as a sort of Study in Status-Motivated Behavior Within a Peer Group, the reader needs to remind himself that these people are among the greatest names in modern literature (though Ford Madox Ford and Robert McAlmon are no longer big beaks in the literary pecking hierarchy...
...this likable, mad and unfathomable first novel. Not an integral part; Author Pynchon has taken great pains to ensure that his book has none of these. The novel is built on the plan of the expanding universe or of one of those whirling platforms at amusement parks; the reader starts at the center, and, as the narration picks up speed, slides helplessly toward infinity, while his sanity and his umbrella drift away in different directions...