Word: thereness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Once upon a time there were 13 clocks that wouldn't run. A cold, aggressive Duke had killed time seven years before, wiped his bloody blade upon his beard, and left time lying there on the cold stones of Coffin Castle, bleeding hours & minutes, while he hurried off in...
"We All Have Flaws." Zorn followed the Golux to Hagga's hill, a place so high that it is dug in furrows "where the dragging points of stars had plowed the fields," and where "there was a smell . . a little like Forever in the air." There they found a...
In the end, Zorn dropped a sackful of her tears in the Duke's lap, and sailed off with the princess for "the distant shining shores of Ever After." The Duke "showed his lower teeth" and muttered disconsolately: "We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked." A little...
Not to Say Violent. Most Americans know James Thurber for the funny fellow who draws cartoons and who analyzed the daydream of grandeur in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Yet Thurber is only every other inch a comic writer; in between, he is a psychologist as keen as any...
In The Thirteen Clocks, Thurber's narrative is less bedizened with verbal gimcrackery, but it is still a bit too tricky for every taste. Nevertheless, there is no living author who moves about in fairyland with such wit and easy familiarity. As for inner meanings, please yourself.