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...writing about the pathetic observations in Daley C. Hagar's article about Martin Amis ("Amis' Information, on Our Shores," May 12, 1995). Country to Hagar's assertion, "I couldn't find a single person at Harvard who had even heard of him," I managed to round up two of my friends here at Harvard who had not only "heard of him" but had indeed read most of his novels and essays...
...Hagar goes on to state that she was perplexed that the audience attending Amis' reading at Waterstone's "were all, well, old person." This astounded me. I was probably the third person to arrive at the reading, and my friend and I commented about all the people who were fast filling up all the seats. They were filling up all the seats. They were mostly hip-looking professsional people who read books. I'd say at least 80 percent of the people at the Martin Amis/Will Self reading were 35 or younger. Does this mean...
...Hagar says, "The few college students I saw [this must define youth] must have been there to get an autograph from Will Self, who apparently following a self-styled recovery plan, has stopped shooting heroin and started getting drunk at seven o'clock." I should say that Hagar admits to "digressing" in that sentence. Hagar must have the same skewed opinion on the definition of "drunk" as he or she does on "age". Will Self approached the podium with a beer in his hand, and without even reading from a text he recited a lengthy short story which...
These savagely inaccurate observations don't measure up to the overt pretentiousness that fills up this book review. Hagar not only had problems with the "old people" at the reading as well as Will Self's choice of beverage, but apparently she assumes one must possess some sort of British "roaring boy" background to fully comprehend Amis' work: "Amis hasn't made any waves on this side of the Atlantic...At Oxford, Amis is a normal topic of discussion." That statement is a firm justification for doing away with those semester-abroad programs. The pompous and presumptuous Hagar had just...
...level, the entire Arab-Israeli struggle can be seen as a biblical family tragedy: Abraham's rejection of his concubine Hagar and his first-born son Ishmael in favor of his lawful wife Sarah and their son Isaac. Muslims regard Ishmael (Ismail) as the father of the Arab peoples, while Jews honor Isaac as their progenitor. And both sides claim Abraham (Ibrahim) as their common ancestor...