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Nobel laureate Saul Bellow read from a story he wrote about a 17-year-old boy in Chicago...
Before his reading, which had audience members chuckling, Bellow joked that the audience was getting restless...
Singer had every right to act the celebrity, yet he was never at home in the modern style. His works were often published first in Yiddish in The Jewish Daily Forward and later in translation. Saul Bellow brought him wide recognition by rendering the poignant anecdote Gimpel the Fool in English. But royalties were slow to arrive, and for many years Singer lived modestly on the earnings of his second wife Alma, a buyer at Saks Fifth Avenue. Until late in life he kept his name in the Manhattan phone book, and at lunch hour he could be found munching...
...three reference books instead of one. The mind (still on the wrong side of the law) then deviously begins to intermingle passages, reshuffle sentences, disguise raw chunks from the Britannica, find synonyms, reshape information until it becomes something like the student's own. A writer, as Saul Bellow has said, "is a reader moved to emulation." Knowledge transforms theft. An autonomous mind emerges from the sloughed skin of the plagiarist...
Ernie had it all figured out. The cheeky Sesame Street cutup was out angling, but there were no tugs on the little Muppet's line. So he began to bellow, "Heeere, fishy, fishy, fishy," and sure enough, big plump ones began zooming into his rowboat with a satisfying aerodynamic whistle...