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...that consistently weighs it down. Cline seems to have aimed to write both a scholarly work and one with popular appeal. But her careful, exhaustive and often pedestrian style makes it a slow read and a frequently heavy one; there's no inspired prose to be found here. The text's punctiliousness about names and dates is a mixed blessing, of course: for the reader with a consuming interest in Hall, or a general fascination with early lesbian culture and literature, the book will be a treasure trove of anecdotes, literary analysis and historical details. But it's hardly...
...already be asking, was such pageantry the necessary complement of a first-class book or, like so much ceremony, a feat of window-dressing staged around a hollowness of ideas? In other words, did author and text deserve the worshipful two hours carved out for them...
Morrison chose to read the opening chapter of Paradise because, to her mind, that chapter more than the others "can stand alone" from the rest of the text. The strange truth is that the selection actually works better as a separate entity than it does as an entrance into her book...
...word responsibility means `capable of response,'" he says, "and that means getting away from being a slave to the text...
...reading Playboy Magazine. I had purchased the Christmas issue for a friend of mine and I helped myself to leafing through it before delivery. A certain ad caught my eye. The picture showed a gentleman dressed in a tuxedo sitting at a casino table with several sexy women. The text running along the bottom of the ad told me that the man who reads Playboy jets off on weekend get-aways. He drops a lots of money on cars, clothes and cuisine. The handsome "Playboy gentleman" had a James Bond quality I couldn't turn down. Of course, I desperately...