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...challenge, says Holmes, is "to present statistics as a visual idea rather than a tedious parade of numbers. Without being frivolous, I want to entertain the reader as well as inform him." In some cases, the very curves of plotted statistics suggest an image. Thus the lines on this week's Business graph tracing OPEC's contribution to inflation became the band of an Arab headdress. "I have to be careful to choose the right symbols," he says...
...every poem seems to perpetuate itself, with each line flowing into the next. His book contains only a few flaws. For one, Heaney's line breaks seem a bit contrived. Sometimes, too, the poet couples abstractions, such as "sibilant penumbra" or "mellowed clarities" which ask too much of the reader, even the active one. Finally, his detached version of the Ugolino episode in Cantos 32 and 33 of Dante's Inferno, which concludes Field Work, does not measure up to the profundity of his personal lyrics...
...lived life. His wide-eyed narrative, dictated to an amanuensis, is diffuse and repetitive, often couched in a quaint, flowery style. But his gusto and warmth carry him through, as they have in so many technically flawed recitals. He succeeds in making his adventures almost as stirring to the reader as they...
Naked Lunch exploded like a lanced boil on the American literary scene in 1959. The novel, a farrago of discontinuous fragments, takes the reader on a graphic tour of the hellish interstices of a junkie's mind, the fantasies of castration and necrophilia and technology gone amok. The updated Gothicism, hip drugginess and black humor of Naked Lunch established Burroughs' audience, composed mostly of young people. Norman Mailer compared reading Burroughs to "being in a room where three radios, two television sets, stereo hi-fi, a pornographic movie, and two automatic dishwashers are working at once." John Clellon Holmes called...
...Burroughs shifted uneasily in his orange leatherette chair. "I don't know what you mean by that...Art is certainly concerned with the creation of values. I mean if it doesn't affect people, it hasn't accomplished anything. Naturally you're trying to produce an effect on the reader...