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...Nobody bothered to do any digging," explains Mayes, who is now 73 and living in London. He says that he wrote the book as a satire and was shocked when reviewers took it seriously. He confesses that the book "literally swarms" with contradictions and absurd fabrications. Mayes has Alger frolicking with a prostitute in Paris when he was actually attending divinity school in Massachusetts. The biographer invented a diary for his subject and even gave Alger a stammer and the fortitude to over come it-all done without possessing the slightest bit of evidence to back up his assertions...
Negotiators on both sides were getting snappish. "We are tired, beat and emotionally fed up," said one Israeli. "Kissinger has to keep up this absurd shuttle because those bastards don't want to talk to us. They seem frightened by the prospect of their own moderation-if it can be called moderation to take back land you lost in a war you started." Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, after a Knesset debate over his handling of the Palestinian attack on Ma'alot, stomped out of the Chamber, muttering audibly "I'm fed up with this government...
...persuades her to stay with him of her own will. In Sweet Eros, the hero offers us a vision of life so meaningless, that judging the moral reprehensibility of his actions is impossible. His girlfriend committed suicide, his mother died of cancer; life to him has become an absurd game which he likens to the scurrying of ants across the floor. The kidnapping is an act of desperation: in order to insure his own survival he needs someone to share his existence. "There comes a day when what's right is what you want to do," he exclaims, offering what...
...summary, such goings-on may sound hopelessly elfin, self-indulgent or absurd. But Jones' surrealist fragments produce in the reader's mind the same edgy excitement and slight disorientation that a suburban householder feels upon entering wild country. It is a delicately calculated trick, but it works. Easy slashes of cruelty cut the airy imagining. " Try this,' I told my son. I handed him a two-ounce, slightly chewed Yellow Cab with a treble hook mounted on the front bumper ... Inside a minute, he had three wiggling pedestrians on the hook ... One was a girl...
That kind of dialogue might be a hit in the theater of the absurd, but it hardly seems the stuff of popular success. Yet even though the White House transcripts of taped presidential conversations are shot through with such passages as that one between the President and the Assistant Attorney General on April 16, 1973, they have become the nation's newest bestseller and biggest conversation piece. With good reason...