Word: burningly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jones's writing has if anything grown worse since Eternity. Thus, his narrative power: "He had never been so sexually excited in his life; the heat of it was so great he was afraid it would melt his ears, ignite his hair and burn the top of his head off." His gift for simile: "Grant suddenly felt amiable again, like a man who has just been relieved of a serious constipation." Metaphor: "I want to know what makes the wellsprings of human character tick...
...amputee program, which he started 15 months ago, was progressing. As he visited 20 hospitals from the 17th parallel to the Gulf of Siam, he was struck by the fact that some 85% of admissions were for disease and accidents. Some of the ac cidents involved gasoline burns. Because the cost of charcoal and kerosene has soared, some Vietnamese have tried to make do with stolen gasoline; hundreds have been burned in the resulting explosions. Of all the burn cases-by accident or by non-napalm weaponry-that came to his attention, only 5% required plastic surgery...
...projection of another man's dream-what incom parable humiliation!" A fire blooms in the forest, and the stranger, calmly accepting death, walks into the flames. But they do not burn: "With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he, too, was all appearance, that someone else was dreaming...
There exists a second ending to the Story of F in which a wandering forest ranger saves the reluctant F from her lover only to watch her be abused by bears. Another version of the beginning has a janitor burn the manuscript and use the ashes for an eggtimer...
...Maryland's Chevy Chase Club last week, groundkeepers with shovels and brooms were clearing off a 6-in. snowfall from the club's seven raised-platform courts in time for the annual mixed-doubles "scramble." At Darien, Conn.'s Wee Burn Country Club, 3½ in. of drifting snow was being pushed off the courts in preparation for the national championships. And at Brookline, Mass., The Country Club was rushing to completion the first two platform-tennis courts in the club's long history. All this activity must be over and done with before winter ends...