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Above all, Borges said, a writer should not "be defeated by his own words, his own cleverness." His own procedure, he said, is to write out each new idea in the barest way he can, "inventing as little as possible...
...restrictions which prevent them from participating fully in the social world. There comes a point at which Barabas, the professional poisoner, ceases to be a satanic figure and can lecture Ferneze on the conditions of injustice without immediately sounding ludicrously hypocritical. Dickens works differently. Fagin enjoys only the barest status as homo Europaenus. . . . Even his Judaism is defective. . . . Fagin, we know, falls completely outside of any religious framework. . . .Dickens, in short, has 'de-historicized' his man and came up with some prehistoric fiend, an aging Lucifer whose depravity explains him wholly. . . . Characters like Fagin who are without grace, who terrify...
Appointed pastor of Ile de la Tortue in 1947, Father Riou saw that the island's 12,000 inhabitants, living six miles from the mainland, had not even the barest medical facilities. On arrival he came across a peasant woman who, having given birth to twins, was cutting the umbilical cords with a machete. Riou opened a crude dispensary and was immediately swamped. He built a room with 15 floor mats on which the sick could lie. After returning to France for a fourth year of medical school to complete the training he had received as an army medic...
...more than five minutes in daytime appearances, with an outside limit of 20 minutes for an evening speech. Oftentimes people who have waited long wish there were more. Kennedy seems almost apologetic about keeping his audiences too long; he plunges directly to the issue at hand, with only the barest amenities for the local celebrities, and races quickly through to the end, discarding oratorical filigree as he goes...
Fabulous old N. C. (for Newell Convers) Wyeth crammed his children's-book illustrations with sunset skies, flashing weapons, taut sails, flowing tresses, war bonnets, redcoats and pieces of eight. Andrew Wyeth, his even more famous son, has gradually emptied his own pictures of all but the barest, palest and sharpest images. As against his father's brocades, Andrew Wyeth's art has the austerity of smoky quartz crystals; yet it is all the richer for that, and the more valued. Last week the Philadelphia Museum of Art bought a typically bare new Wyeth...