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These pieces suggest that Bernhard is taking herself or her stardom a little too seriously. The book concludes with an appendix comprising "unfinished pieces" which Bernhard says she's included because she "always find[s] it interesting and revealing to see what people don't include." She should probably have left well enough alone; few will find Bernhard's reject pile "interesting" enough to rummage through these pages of sparse jottings--some haphazardly typed, some scrawled by hand, many with cross-outs, corrections and editing arrows left intact...
Like an ulcer, or an exploded appendix...
...regards as more destabilizing because they invite a pre-emptive strike. Scowcroft sketched this vision eight years ago as chairman of President Reagan's Commission on Strategic Forces, and he is now seeing it become reality. Said one Administration official of Bush's announcement: "This is the unwritten appendix to the Scowcroft commission...
...interview included in the appendix, Sakharov says, "There is a need to create ideals even when you can't see any way to achieve them, because if there are no ideals then there can be no hope and then one would be left completely in the dark, in a hopeless blind alley...
...could be wrong. Maybe Ali's quote really is more original than Tennyson's "And from his ashes be made/The violet of his native land," which has two cross-references. Or maybe I'm right, and the editors didn't feel like selling a separate appendix listing all the other people who claimed greatness...