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...chief drawback attaching itself to Hawkes's first-person narrative technique rests with none other than his narrator, Cyril, who (as one gathers early on) is the archetypal "multisexualist." Through Cyril's eyes--his center of consciousness--the reader surveys obliquely a "tapestry of love." The Arcadian setting is as timeless as it is detached from the quotidian world of mortals--or so Cyril believes: "In Illyria there are no seasons...
...Cyril's "relics are circular," and his undisguised highest obligation has become the gratification of his own senses. He and his beautiful wife, Fiona, cannot be content with each other alone. Instead they require the complementary presence and attention of Hugh and Catherine if their "successful" marriage is to go on working...
...fact of the matter is that there has been no dispute, at least among scholars who study the subject, about the substantial genetic component in the distribution of I.Q. scores in any population for which the relevant data have been collected. The main facts were already noted by Cyril Burt in 1910, although the precision of the estimates of sources of variance has improved greatly since then. My article in the Atlantic merely stated the scholarly concensus, with some representative findings. I have yet to hear of any significantly contrary evidence...
...harsh conditions on the planet do not necessarily preclude life. On earth, they point out, organisms have managed to thrive in environments ranging from the icy wastes of Antarctica to the windblown summits of high mountains to the enormous pressures of deep-sea trenches. Adds University of Maryland Exobiologist Cyril Ponnamperuma: "We have even found life in boiling hot springs and strong acids...
...Cyril Connolly said of Hemingway that he "saturated his books with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love, and with the remorse which is the shadow of that sun." The same might be said of the poetry of Robert Graves, especially in his latest work, Poems...