Word: blurrier
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...oddly enough, the harder one looks, the blurrier the words become, as in those diplomas by Cartoonist Saul Steinberg. The first third of the book concerns the pother that arises when a sick giraffe kicks a keeper to death and, in the process, as is obligatory these days in symbolic works, emasculates him. In the book's second third, the irascible old men who run the zoo squabble violently over a plan to transport the animals to a game preserve on the Welsh border. But the energy of their manias is fussed away to little effect...