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...then Lieutenant Hornblower's heretofore unsuspected murder of Captain David Sawyer (H.M.S. Renown, 74 guns) on the West Indies station in 1800.* A pedant or a gross popularizer would have made much of the incident, but Parkinson, clearly not wanting to perplex inattentive readers, presents it in Appendix 2, reproducing a letter from Hornblower to his descendants that was not made public until...
Snyder's expenses are not unusual. John Schureman, 21, of Hollywood, developed peritonitis when his infected appendix ruptured, and then needed a second operation when the infection spread to other parts of his body. His condition, complicated by a peritoneal hernia, worsened to the point that he required three more operations, 15 pints of blood that cost $15 each, and round-the-clock care. Schureman spent nearly two months in various hospitals. His bills, which came to more than $20,000, wiped out his $3,000 savings. They also left Schureman, who works for the American Institute of Hypnosis...
...Miss Pullar's pet theses, which Americans, engulfed in cookbooks and cholesterol, might ponder: gluttony is the consequence of another sin, boredom -acedia. Affluent Roman days, according to Miss Pullar, were "great plains of monotony punctuated with affairs and mealtimes," often conducted simultaneously. (In a special appendix the twin hungers for food and sex are related by Miss Pullar, who is now at work on a biography of that priapic trencherman, Frank Harris...
...brief digression before the argument concludes. A piece of biographical data (which may or may not be at all to the point) found in an appendix to Sisterhood Is Powerful, an anthology of writings from the Women's Liberation Movement...
Updike has ingeniously and elaborately invented Bech and his entire literary career. Verisimilitude is heightened by various Nabokovian cartouches, including an appendix containing Henry Bech's "Russian journal" and an introductory letter to Updike from Bech that shrewdly stops short of being a seal of approval: "I don't suppose your publishing this little jeu of a book will do either of us drastic harm...