Word: egos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LATER EGO (625 pp.) James Agate - Crown...
Agate shrugged and made note of it in Ego-the compendious, perennial diary which would enable him, he hoped, "to take my place beside Pepys." "Something has always turned up," he told Ego, "and something will turn up now." Four days later, a heart attack swept 69-year-old Diarist Agate to that bourne from which no income tax returns...
...last she invents an alter ego named Tony Something and trails off with her on a bus ride to oblivion. Right at the start, Tony Something is swept away by the crowd to the back of the bus; Natalie is left alone among the "enemy," which, to her tortured mind, now includes the whole human race. She tries to escape. They close in, holding her motionless. The man on her left nods and winks to the others. A woman's coat brushes mockingly against Natalie's face. Natalie thinks that all of them are in a plot...
...judgment was overly harsh. Though much of Bierce is intellectual dandruff from an unkempt ego, the best of the wit still sparkles, and a few true-eyed Civil War tales are at least as durable as war. Biographer Fatout fails to indicate the company Bierce keeps-Poe, Melville, Stephen Crane, H. L. Mencken-the slender, off-key tradition of pessimism in American life & letters. "Why should I remain in a country that is on the eve of woman's suffrage and prohibition?" sulked Bierce in 1912. The old (71) soldier wanted to see if Pancho Villa and his Mexicans...
...unconscious conflict in you [has] been working its way to the surface for a long time." This is more than poor George is given a chance to do himself, as the analyst gallops him down into the Freudian underworld and introduces him to such alarming spooks as his own ego, superego and lusty id. "Do you mean that I have three personalities, but am only conscious of one?" howls poor George...