Word: explains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does Soros spend his money in a region many consider to be a black hole? "I have a fascination with risk," he says in his heavily accented English. "It makes me feel alive. I can get bored just living." While that confession may explain his activities as a speculator and breakneck downhill skier, it is only part of what drives a man who is himself a refugee from the region...
...Jong's larger project in Erica Jong on Henry Miller is to explain Miller's importance--and perhaps her own importance, by extension--to American literary history. Jong summarizes her intent at the end of a chapter titled "Why Must We Read Miller? Miller as Sage": "I want to send you back to read him--with an open head and heart." Unfortunately, though she makes some interesting claims (e.g. "Ultimately Miller can be a stronger force for feminism than for male chauvinism."), few heads and hearts will be opened by her critical commentary. Jong quotes a passage from Miller...
...willy-nilly, to fit him into preexisting patterns; and when they fail, they blame him. But Henry's very message is that life is formless, and that creativity partakes of divine chaos." But you would probably gain more from these "willy-nilly" scholars than from Jong. Jong doesn't explain the chaos, she just adds...
...sexy humor of the plot with issues of sexism, religion, AIDS, filial duty and all the other problems of the world. I mentioned this to Rita Mae Brown: "I found that there was far more philosophy in this book than there was in your first. How do you explain that?" "You probably haven't read all the books in between," Brown responded sweetly. "There's a fair bit of 'philosophy' in those, too. I could have written Daughter of Rubyfruit Jungle for the rest of my life, but I would have died. As I've learned, as I've developed...
...There are so many of them floating around these days that it's hard to keep track of who is talking and who believes what. The New York Times annotated an interview with the author with subscripts (Roth 1, Roth 2 and Roth 3). Other reviewers have had to explain clearly who they mean by Philip Roth the author, Philip Roth the character and Philip Roth the imposter. The opening of the story explains that Philip Roth the character (and the author too) spent part of 1987 addicted to the sleeping drug Halcion prescribed after a botched knee operation...