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...more than in these meditations, in the act of writing.Over the course of the collection, Wright gradually introduces the metaphorical relationship between language and life. In “Tomorrow,” the first poem, Wright suggests that life has already been written “on the flyleaf of the Book of Snow.” Later he looks at language not as a tool of the “merciless” future but of his own understanding. In “Sundown Blues,” he realizes “There are some things that...
when I write my name on the flyleaf...
...cover and flyleaf provide ample warning of the one-sided account to follow. Underneath the main title we read "The Reagan Administration and the stalemate of nuclear arms control." Are we negotiating with ourselves? And on the flyleaf we find no mention of the Soviet Union except in relation to the "dangerous stalemate" brought about by Administration "infighting" and "ideological conflict." If the reader thought he was going to read about superpower rivalry he is about to be disabused this is a book about the perfidy of the Reagan Administration, and precious little else...
...read Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies, or dipped into Zuleika Dobson, it was a true sign of sophistication. French literature was pretty much uncharted territory, except in my case, for I received a copy of Les Fleurs du Mal with a "sensitive" inscription on the flyleaf from some moony boyfriend. The unexplored terrain of a the Russian novel was as immense as the steppes themselves...
...like a TV movie, complete with fade-ins, exotic locales, love interests-everything but the words "Place Commercial Here" between chapters. In other words, Bulliet makes no grand assumptions about his readers' intelligence. There's even a map--a simplified one at that--of the Middle East on the flyleaf, for those readers who just can't keep all those Arabian nations straight (though the Persian Gulf itself is confusingly labeled Bahrain...