Word: haring
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...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...
CAROLE HAIGH HARE Diamondhead, Miss...
There was only one hitch: waiting for the man in Chicago's O'Hare airport were FBI agents who were tracking his travels as part of an investigation and wanted to interview him. The FBI had to appeal to the TSA to get the man off the list, and the next day he flew to Chicago. The investigation is still under...