Word: crypticness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commonplace and the mysterious, the concrete and the metaphysical. In a certain sense, these stories do partake in a "realism" which is different from Borges's earlier works. The stories collected in Ficciones and Labyrinths have been appropriately called "metaphysical fictions"; they include parables of uncertain or cryptic explanation, fantastic tales of civilizations and customs which oddly and perversely reflect our own, and pseudo-essays where actual erudition is intermingled with fictional sources, where creation and criticism perplexingly resemble one another. In all of these early stories, through a precise, cool, and credible style, Borges constructs a metaphysics of irreality...
...verses," replied Armstrong, "and Titus, Chapter 1, verse 6." Both passages make two points in common: that a bishop or church elder must be faithful to his wife and rule strictly over believing children. Had handsome Garner Ted succumbed to an old and common temptation? His father was cryptic: "The fault was spiritual, not moral...
...doom. All the time you're on fire-knowing what you desire," whose meaning is barely perceptible. The groups new, untitled number also had some ridiculously superfluous lyrics like. "I was kneeling on my knees." Many times, however, the music does hold one's attention in spite of the cryptic phrasing...
Almost every major hotel chain in the country is being sued for making small surcharges on room bills under cryptic designations such as 1NTMS (for Internal Message Service); this week Hilton Hotels is expected to settle its part of the suit for $4,000,000. Last week seven young men won a stay of induction for all potential draftees in seven California counties until a federal court decides whether a technicality in the Selective Service law bars all inductions before...
...rented car swung off the forest-flanked road in the North Carolina countryside and moved into a clearing on which had been erected a bright sign bearing the cryptic letters EXXON. Several high-priced executives climbed from the car, scrutinized the sign, conferred enthusiastically-and then just as mysteriously drove off. Within minutes, workmen ripped down the pole and emblem and sneaked away...