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...trip, and buy a lot of drinks. At the Crow's Nest Inn on the day the sinking was reported, recalls the girlfriend of one of the drowned men, "everybody was drunk 'cause that's what we do, just drinkin' and drinkin' and cryin' and drinkin'..." The book's epigraph, from Sir Walter Scott, has it right: "It's no fish ye're buying, it's men's lives...
...book's epigraph, Kelly quotes Seamus Heaney: "Humans suffer, they torture one another, they get hurt and get hard. No poem of play or song can fully right a wrong inflicted and endured." Indeed, Payback comes to no conclusion, offering no closure in the lives of Billy and Paddy. In one sense, it is very frustrating not to know whether they die or how they choose to live. Yet in the bleak, violent, greedy New York City of 1987, from water tunnels seven hundred feet below the bustle of Broadway to overcrowded bars of Hell's Kitchen, humans suffered...
This authorial cheerleading causes some problems. Magda's losing battle with ovarian cancer is movingly portrayed, but her charismatic brilliance -- insisted upon by the worshippers who gather at her bedside -- remains elusive. One of her mots, about marriage, is deemed deep enough to serve as an epigraph to the novel: "Mates are not always matches, and matches are not always mates." Food for thought, perhaps, but only to the very hungry. As for Hugo, he gives lectures, largely left to the imagination, that provoke women and men to hug him afterward. And a rather vapid remark he makes comparing...
...fiction, truth and myth, memory can create an epic out of everyday incidents. But Cela also questions the relevance and meaning of memory in a world where truth and justice are arbitrary and politically defined. It is not accidental that the Poe quotation also serves as the novel's epigraph...
THESE WORDS ARE FROM THE EPIGRAPH OF ROOSEVELT: THE LION AND THE FOX, a book that Bill Clinton has spoken of fondly as his appreciation of F.D.R.'s style of governance has grown. The President has already proved adept at following the dark side of Machiavelli's injunction: during the campaign, he ignored the & exploding deficit because acknowledging its growth would have meant breaking his promise of tax relief for the middle class. It is tempting to mock him now that he has broken that pledge, but Clinton has at least faced the facts squarely, which is more than...