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Reeves transferred to Harvard after his freshman year at Trinity College and remembers his first visit to the Harvard Square of the 1960’s, which back then was teeming with street musicians, Hare Krishna chanters, and “hippies with no shoes sitting on the ground...
...world of books and ephemera overlaps with the University’s, but today, he says, their relationship is less symbiotic than it once was.BUYING INTO THE MARKETWhen Marshall, who grew up in nearby Lynn, Mass., first came to Harvard Square in 1970, it was filled with orange Hare Krishna robes and student protests against the Vietnam War, he says. Vendors gathered in front of the Holyoke Center, selling handmade jewelry and other artifacts of a counterculture zeitgeist.Marshall says he decided to sell books because he didn’t want to apply for a vendor’s license...
...GORE Slow and steady tortoise to Clinton's hare, he becomes the most consequential V.P. in modern history...
...that gives the book its arresting comic edge. Like "scrupulous doubter" Coetzee himself, Paul doesn't totally believe in the merits of his tale: "I am not a hero, Mrs. Costello." The lady, of course, won't have a bar of it. She exhorts Paul to be a fictional hare rather than a tortoise: "Don Quixote is not about a man sitting in a rocking chair bemoaning the dullness of La Mancha. It is about a man who ? sallies forth to do great deeds...
...things as shapely legs among lady spiders, and does their attractive force puzzle the male spider as it draws him in?" Paul will continue to ask such questions, and like her author's id, Elizabeth Costello will continue to sally forth. In this way, Slow Man is more literary hare than tortoise, showing why Coetzee continues to be fiction's quixotic knight...