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Borges used the problem of finding fresh metaphors to illustrate the difficulties of writing originally without "dazzling the reader." Unlike philosophy, where it is the new idea that counts, literature places emphasis on new forms for old ideas, he said...
...Reader Dusenbury's letter [Jan. 26], Ambassador Galbraith is not the only one in our State Department whose usual position is the W. One may rest on knees and elbows with feet, hips and forearms upraised. This is a wrestler's defensive position. Haven't some of our ambassadors been in that position for some time...
What your reader does not conceive is the probability that Ambassador Galbraith has a long pair of feet to make a short last hand...
...ladies have not yet learned the Anglo-Indian's snobbery, and they accept Dr. Aziz's impulsive invitation to visit some local caves. Here the effort of compression undoes the adapter. In the novel, the reader is made to understand that each woman is already under a severe strain. Old Mrs. Moore's is the approach of death and the retreat of God; Miss Quested's is an incomprehension of love. When the heat, the smells, and the frightening echoes turn Mrs. Moore abruptly into a benumbed old sibyl and induce Miss Quested to believe that...
Died. William Hard Sr., 83, longtime (since 1940) roving editor of the Reader's Digest, a onetime Chicago settlement-house director who became one of U.S. journalism's first and most effective muckrakers, won fame for his crusades for social reform in articles for the Nation, New Republic and Saturday Evening Post...