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...steps, and from his hero's sometimes poignant inability to cope with events or comprehend reality: "I say living without knowing what it is. I tried to live without knowing what I was trying. Perhaps I have lived after all, without knowing." As a craftsman, Beckett tries to convey the chaotic by means of the incoherent, and fails. He possesses fierce intellectual honesty, and his prose has a bare, involuted rhythm that is almost hypnotic. Yet, in the end, his derelict's vision of humanity is that of the prideful or fearful castaway who reduces the meaning...
...with his granddaughter Sandra (one of John D. Ill's daughters) about her life at Vassar and his life long ago at Old Brown. J.D.R. Jr. might even relate boyhood maxims: "He Who Conquers Self Is the Greatest Victor," or "The Secret of Sensible Living Is Simplicity." Or convey his eternal hope. "I think that in a hundred years," he wrote at school long ago, "it is to be hoped and expected that the people of our country will be wiser and better, and therefore happier, than...
...Indian cemetery established in the 18403 when the Wyandottes moved to Kansas from Ohio and Michigan, the land was part of the property ceded to the Federal Government in 1855 in exchange for lands in Oklahoma. However, the Wyandottes insist they never did convey title to the cemetery to anybody. For more than 60 years they have been seeking to regain possession, but each attempt was blocked by Kansas' Representatives in Washington. Finally, this year, the tribe employed an old-fashioned tactic: ambush. Public Law 887 was presented to Congress as an Interior Department bill, and the Interior Department...
...When I consider how my light is spent, c) When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw), a student must show a high degree of literary perception. Each line has ten syllables, and each is in iambic pentameter. But only b makes little attempt to convey meaning through the sound of the words used...
...rather lets the story woolgather its facts, like lint, off the top of Milt's mind. Milt's mind, it is true, often seems a mighty dull place to spend 310 pages, but even the dullness has its fierce effect. Without it, the author could hardly convey how awful it is to be Milt, how vile it is to run from life like a frightened pig, to crush everything in the path, and in the end (as a pig's sharp trotters sometimes will) to slash your own throat...