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...have settled into "a limbo of heterosexual palship haunted by silently howling abandoned hopes." As the tense sojourn drags toward its close, Bech finds his signature harder and harder to complete. Finally he lifts his pen. "All was poised, and the expectant blankness of the paper seemed an utter bliss to the author, as he gazed deep into the negative perfection to which his career had been brought. He could not even write his own name...
...humiliating.' How's that?" He continues, "Actually, I loved it. My wife loved it. My in-laws loved it....I was very surprised; I think of myself as an inspiring person, but....I don't know why they chose me, and I think in this case, ignorance is bliss...
Women can move proudly into the security of then-new bodies ? they can jog into shape, lift weights for body tone, wear themselves out in the disco bliss of Jazzercise. But what about men? "Jazzercise is a blowout," one Atlanta woman says. "Remember the first dances you went to, where all the girls ended up dancing with other girls because the boys couldn't dance? So this gives me a chance to dance, which my husband hasn't done since our wedding. But my husband still won't dance. Come to think of it, I'm back to dancing...
...Roberts), who is applying for the job of editing some articles that will eventually grow into Helen's autobiography. An ardent socialist, John foists a couple of books by Karl Marx on Annie and, before five minutes go by, steals two highly subversive kisses. The haunting note of bliss and trouble in paradise is simultaneously sounded...
Another travel writer, one who confined his searchings to the space within the borders of his native country, may actually provide perhaps the best prototype of Theroux's style. Jack Kerouac broke out into the open road in the mid-50s with the coitus-and narcotic-addled bliss of a youth set free from the narrow confines of hometown and ceremonial life. Theroux has also journeyed on the open road, but on a far more expansive one. Encompassing both adventure and introspection, he has recorded journeys from Victoria Station to Siberia, and back, in The Old Railway Bazaar; and from...