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Following their previous pattern, the slightly-favored heptagonal champions capitalized on unexpected clutch performances, mopped up in their strong events, and sent Eli coach Bog Giegengack back to New Haven to plot only revenge for the third straight year...
...took the occasion for a lecture. "Here's something to remember," he sang out. "When you're in water in combat never go out in the middle. You make a perfect target, especially on a moonlight night. Keep close to the shore. Keep moving or you will bog down." Not everyone heard him; there was too much confusion. Some of the boots tried to joke. One yelled: "Hey, something just swam between my legs!" Another found a short piece of rope and waved it, shouting: "Watch the snake! Watch the snake...
...Elliot Paul (277 pp.; Random House; $2.75), is a Homer Evans mystery by the author of The Mysterious Mickey Finn and Hugger-Mugger in the Louvre. It is for longtime Elliot Paul fans only; latecomers who are merely looking for a story are likely to bog down in the aggressive whimsy and the interminable dissertations on art, sex and French cooking...
...needed a memory as exhaustive as Joyce's [own] as we sink into the bog-so misleadingly called a stream-of Irish consciousness. Joyce is the theologian of the interior morass ... As for meaning, Joyce attempts to replace it by 'pattern,' and, in doing so, he was prophetic of modern habit: unguided by moral conviction, impelled by scientific bent, we use the notion of 'pattern' to cover our lack of sense of moral direction." In Joyce's pattern, "God becomes word, life becomes a fantastic department of rhetoric and we need not go outside...
...River plantation to get some grapes. Poor Caro fell into a trap, died horribly in a shower of splintered glass panes. Next, Lettitia sent her husband crashing to his death from a rotten balcony. Before she herself died (of a migraine), Lettitia 1) dispatched a slave in a quicksand bog, and 2) ordered her personal maid's young daughter into the "stud cabin" in the plantation's slave quarters, where the child died of a brutal raping. Lettitia's penance seems mild in comparison to some others. True, she is occasionally heard screaming in the night...