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...poems are free of howlers. Still the reader finds Melville awkward and even embarrassed in the presence of poetry, as if poetry were attended by a duenna and not a muse. His enormously long philosophical poem Clarel, which is excerpted here, is a sober, jointy affair in which pilgrims clatter painfully about the Holy Land thirsting after truth amid the waterless cantos...
...time." The time was the 1920s and '30s, and the man was Wyndham Lewis. Since then, Lewis has died, and the many battles he fought and which seemed so important at the time have passed into memory. Now Lewis' collected letters recall those battles-the clang and clatter of cubism, futurism, imagism, vorticism; the boisterous challenge to the literary establishment of "the Men of 1914": Eliot, James Joyce, Ezra Pound and, not least by a long shot, Wyndham Lewis...
Machines are becoming almost as communicative as people-to the delight of big communications companies. Computers chatter over great distances, exchanging complex data in whirring tones, and telegraph and teletype clatter with increasing volume across the oceans. Such conversations between machines offer the communications companies their most exciting prospects for the future. Thus it was doubly disappointing to American Telephone and Telegraph that the U.S. Government last week shut it out of most of this business on the busy transatlantic circuits...
...made a note in her book, extended her hand, and bounced from the porch, her face reflecting a controlled, anticipated satisfaction. A car full of whites passed. Necks crained. The driver turned around just in time to watch his car clatter noisily in and out of a shallow ditch...
...stopped at the white cells. "This trash keeps it up, you go ahead and do what you got to do," one said meaningfully to my cellmates. On the Negro side, I could hear the clatter of a drawn gun on bars like a stick dragged along a picket fence. "They'll be no damn singing in this jail!" came the shout. We got handcuffs to lock ever' one a you to the bars. Y'all shut up an' stay shut up--raisin' san' when we got to work...