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...students barged in with their witty signs in facetious support of Mansfield's supposedly bigoted opinions. They offered Mansfield the "David Duke Award" and Will the "Heinrich Himmler Award," revealing their stupidity to all present. Yeah, Heinrich Himmler. That's pretty darn funny. I guess Will's conservatism has a lot in common with that of the Nazi murderer. And Mansfield has offended most of the liberal constituencies at Harvard. I guess he must be a card-carrying member of the Ku Klux Klan. Pretty funny...
...what about those cardboard characters? "I guess I have three answers," Crichton responds. "First of all, I'm doing the best I can. I really try hard. Second, I think there is a way where often you don't know motivation. I don't believe you can know it. So I hesitate to write it. And it makes a cold quality, an exterior quality. And I guess the third reason is that very often I'm not, in some way or another, interested in the characters. For many years, I really wasn't interested...
With typical scientific precision, Crichton tries to get to the bottom of this literary obsession with the inner lives of characters. "I've become very interested in where this inner life came from--as defined by Henry James, I guess. You don't see it at the very beginning. You don't see it in Defoe or Fielding. Was it Jane Austen? George Eliot? J.B.S. Haldane [the English scientist and writer] concluded after some period of introspection he didn't know why he did anything. I'm a lot more interested in religion and spirituality, interests you share with...
...matter how fit or determined Cal was, there was no sure way he could avoid a takeout slide at second base or a fastball in the head. All he could do was hope it wouldn't happen. And guess what? It didn...
...Mine was on a yacht in Boston Harbor. It was about 7 or 8 hours. I guess I tried on 5 different outfits and a bunch of different poses," Keller said...