Word: beche
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...dried-out writer, Bech loses some sustaining irony as he gets closer to home. In London, an aggressive young scholar browbeats Bech into explaining his work. A rich young cutie looks up from her pillow and smugly suggests that he "learn to replace ardor with art." Back home, a former student gives him pot and he vomits...
...Bech is never really pathetic. He never loses sight of his ludicrous position. Somewhere behind the Iron Curtain. Bech observes that "shallowness can be a kind of honesty." It is a remark worthy of Oscar Wilde. It is unlikely, however, that Wilde-who never lost the knack of drawing life from the surface of things-would have fudged with "kind...