Word: faintness
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...week's end that seemed like a faint prospect indeed. Nonetheless, Constantine-no intellectual, but politically sharp-is well aware that Greece's royal family has been deposed, exiled and recalled several times. Presumably, he has patience enough to wait for the day when Greeks might once again decide that the rule of a democratic King is better than that of a despotic commoner...
Open Sepulcher. My second dream, six days later, brought me once again into that cemetery. This time, however, I noticed that the trees were unnaturally large and gnarled, as if they sucked some secret vitality from the inner earth. To my ears came a faint, loathsome piping, like the whining, thin mockery of a single feeble flute that was to start an unwholesome elfin celebration. Just before I awoke, feverish and gasping, I noticed a cowled figure Who beckoned slowly to me, and with a gaunt finger pointed into Lovecraft's open sepulcher...
Just before I howled myself awake, I saw something in the faint phosphorescent light. It is that pallid vision that causes me to write this report, for whether my heart can stand one more night of dreams is most uncertain. As the cowled figure grinned and gibbered, I saw his unmistakable prognathous jaw and wide, habitually surprised eyes. And I knew why so many writers have so assiduously emulated How ard Phillips Lovecraft, for hidden in the glistening convolutions of the eldritch imagination, he lives and he commands...
...part of the same line. Ostensibly a baseball epic of the 1943 Ruppert Mundys, the book is to contemporary fiction what silicone injections are to topless dancing. It is an extravagant mockery of form, a freak show aggressively thrust at the public. "Read me big boy till I faint," Roth seems to be saying, in a paraphrasing of Portnoy's burlesque-queen fantasy. He seems to have cleaned his desk drawers of every party bit and wild turn. He has also researched his subject, spending hours at the baseball Hall of Fame and leaning heavily for inspiration on Larry...
...team as a whole, Harvard went up, 4-0 forty-love behind Rowbotham's spinning serves and Lindner's poaching net play. But with a vocal crowd behind them, the Navy team ran off five straight games for a 5-4 lead, causing not a few faint hearts among the Harvard team...