Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alcestis Oberg Dickinson, Texas...
Hope, in Emily Dickinson's dictum, is the thing with feathers, and so it develops on Zenkali. If Osbert gets his way, the Mockery Bird really will die out, and with it the island. For, in a chain of interdependence as outlandish as nature itself, the Mockeries feed on the fruit of the Ombu tree, remove its outer layer and allow the seed to germinate. The tree grows, plays host to a moth that fertilizes the Amela tree-upon which the island's economy depends. Will the London plutocrats get their way? Will Zenkali perish? Will Peter entice...
...asleep. The Punic Wars rage; Emma Bovary pines; Bacon exhorts others to behave the way he never could. Here French is spoken. There Freud. So go war and peace, pride and prejudice, decline and fall, perpetually in motions as sweeping as Milton's or as slight as Emily Dickinson considering the grass. Every evening Gatsby looks at Daisy's green light, which is green forever. Every morning Gregor Samsa discovers that he has been transformed into a giant insect...
...loaned at the modest interest rate of about 10% to students attending public and private colleges in the state. Illinois has approved the selling of tax-exempt bonds to provide an independent college student loan fund. Yale University is raising tuition by about 14%, partly to increase scholarship funds. Dickinson College, a small private school in Pennsylvania, has established a multimillion-dollar fund to loan money to parents whose children no longer qualify for guaranteed student loans...
...book's cover boasts a huge picture of an impeccably clad, somewhat arrogant-looking executive, presumably Molloy himself. If the book does anything, it portrays the vapidness of the "success" for which this man lives. Dickinson said, "Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed." Perhaps this explains Molloy's peculiar fascination with the subject...