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Naturally, JC never understands Kitten. Readers, making their way through her frantic, phonetic dialect, in which breathtaking obscenities are so pervasive that they soon cease to shock, will at first sympathize with him. But Author Gover is gleefully staging the classic confrontation between educated fool and ignorant sage. Even in broken English, Kitten soon turns out to be a lot smarter and pleasanter than JC. When he decides to steal her car and keep it until she returns the money, he describes the move "as a last recourse to retaliatory capability, humanely applied as persuasion rather than force...
...last week just what directors do in return for adding prestige to corporate letterheads. "No effort of any kind is called for," he told an audience of Yorkshire clubwomen. "You go to a meeting once a month in a car supplied by the company. You look both grave and sage, and on two occasions say 'I agree,' say 'I don't think so' once, and if all goes well, you get $1,440 a year. If you have five of them, it is total heaven, like having a permanent hot bath...
Using only two characters, "Zoo Story" is a chilling thriller taking place around a Central Park bench. "The American Dream" includes a sexy young lad and a sage old grandma, and makes some perceptive points about contemporary idealism through comedic means...
...shadows, sage advice...
...what the book shows beyond any question is that Brower is sage indeed in not emphasizing lectures in "Literature X"-Hum 6. For in all but a few of these essays, the low-lying grey haze of section-man prose completely obscures the rich English literary landscape that lies somewhere below. Whatever effect Brower may predict "Literature X" will have on students, the essays in this volume--explicitly intended to demonstrate his ideas on teaching literature--ought to send him scurrying back to the old drawing board to plan a little re-tooling. The dullness of so many of these...