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WILLIAM FAULKNER once remarked: "An artist is a creature driven by demons. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies." It is an attitude shared by all who have discovered just how difficult it is to write one superlative poem and what bitter battles must be waged to keep poetry vital and relevant in an age when so much...
Asking the culprit is not much help. One standard reply is that he is working on an article about shoplifting, and wanted to pull only one job so as to write with authority. In years past, apprehended shoplifters would often break into tears and beg for leniency. Not today. According to the security manager of a State Street store in Chicago: "Their attitude now is one of hostility and belligerence. Their outlook is 'I don't care. I've been there before.' And there's more violence-just the other day one of my people...
...CHARACTERS accept major defeats when they happen because they accept everything that happens. They even come to beg for defeat when it becomes clear that influencing cause and effect, indeed determining the course of their own lives, is for them impossible. Mother Night opens with the voice of Vonnegut coming at us through the mouth of a Nazi war criminal sitting in an Israeli prison awaiting trial. At the end of the book he does himself in when he suddenly finds he has the evidence to acquit himself...
...proud of my native Rhode Island. I am not ashamed that I grew up in the shadow of Brown Stadium. But Brown reeks. The only team in the Ivies which might allow itself to be battled by the Bruins is their opponent, Columbia. In my final appearance, then, I beg the Bruins to come through: Brown 14, Columbia...
Beneath crystal chandeliers inside Hradcany Castle, on a high hill over looking Prague, the party and government leaders of Czechoslovakia gathered to observe the 50th anniversary of their independence from Austro-Hungarian rule. The moment was solemn - and cautious. "I beg you not to demonstrate," Josef Smrkovský, President of the National Assembly, had pleaded with the students of Prague's Charles University. "Would it be surprising if tanks appeared? If you demonstrate, we might all be sorry." Most of the university heeded the warning, marking the day quietly with a philosophy-department "teach-in" against the Russian occupation...