Word: beholding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason James Joyce wrote as he did is, no doubt, explained in the first episode [of Ulysses], "You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought." However, both are artists. And what else, cries the voice of doom, matters...
Drifting on a lazy stream of subconsciousness, some modern short-story writers seem to forget that they owe their reader-passengers a destination. Not so Scottish Neil (Behold Thy Daughter) Paterson, a canny navigator with some of Somerset Maugham's gift for piloting a narrative to home port. The China Run, eight stories long, boasts several twist-of-fate tales that are polished and sardonic enough to have been told by the Old Party himself...
...entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted. And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him. But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto...
...Mare has been prying for a lifetime, both as poet and short-story writer. Deceptively sedate, sedately deceptive (it is not an author's business, he holds, to "answer each of our riddles in turn; 'tidy things up' "), he is usually content to say, "Behold, I tell you a mystery." Each reader can supply his own explanation...