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...conclusion of “Wise Blood” seems almost tacked-on, simply to leave the reader with a sense of finality. At the end of the book the corpse of Hazel Motes is returned to his boarding house after he runs away because his landlady is pressuring him to marry her. The novel comes to a close as the landlady looks into Hazel’s eyes “trying to see how she had been cheated or what had cheated her, but she couldn’t see anything... she felt as if she were blocked...
...claim the rivalry is friendly—the two teams often share dancers because of various gender and number discrepancies between the schools—but they proudly report that they either beat or tied MIT in most of the finals at the 19th Annual Harvard Invitational at the end of March...
...with a book taking on such a grand scope, Mamet does so without any sense of rigor. In “Theatre,” he makes a number of fascinating and provocative claims, but they are ultimately founded on flimsy arguments that are more reductive than revelatory. The end result is a read that is mostly frustrating with its self-important tone and baseless claims...
...best songs—but never actually does so. Instead, it underpins Birgisson’s nostalgic wailing with a couple of whining violins and jittering electronics, ensuring lyrics like “You’ll really want to grow and grow till tall / They all, in the end, will fall” never sound fatalistic. Far from undermining the album’s generally buoyant mood, this emotional low point makes the more hopeful track that follows it, “Hengilás,” all the more cathartic...
Dicillo offers an intimate look at Morrison, allowing the viewer to see him as person, not just another rock star falling off the deep end. The film even includes footage of Morrison in his hometown with his family, when he started reading Friedrich Nietzsche and William Blake at the age of 16. In fact, the name of the band originates from a line in Blake’s “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell...