Word: fantasticality
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Best Reading The Complete Ronald Firbank. The collected fiction, all clockwork nightingales and silver cobwebs, of an ineffable British fantast whose stories have delighted a small set of admirers for some 40 years...
...Complete Ronald Firbank. The collected fiction-all clockwork nightingales and silver cobwebs-of an ineffable British fantast whose stories have delighted a small set of admirers for some 40 years...
Disciples are the undoing of holy men, and so it is with Richard Condon, a talented and satirical fantast whose fiercely proselytizing followers regard him as the fifth hoarse man of the Apocalypse. A Condon novel has the sound and shape of a bagful of cats. In The Oldest Confession, The Manchurian Candidate and Some Angry Angel, Condon garnered fans with accounts, written in messianic exasperation, of criminal endeavor, fate's falling cornices, widespread venality, the search for truth, Chinese torture practices, and the love of good women. The sort of nuance that drives his fans loopy with admiration...
...Robinson does more than fulfill the terms of the Parker will; he brings to his book the settling virtues of scholarship and cold common sense. The F.D.R. who emerges from The Roosevelt Leadership is supremely confident, politically astute and personally courageous, but he is also an ethical and ideological fantast, blithely writing IOUs on the U.S. future...
...made his confession, Van Meegeren was in jail awaiting trial as a collaborator. He is still there, and the full details of his sensational story are still to be checked. One official of the Rotterdam Museum has a theory of his own: Van Meegeren may be a muddy-minded fantast with a grudge against museums. Some Dutch art experts, who stand to lose considerable prestige over the affair, just plain don't believe a word of Van Meegeren's story...