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...well as the rest of the people in this dense work, are seen in relation to Elena Ross, one of the most boring women imaginable. Elena marries Howe and later takes Morrissey as a lover. Kidnaped and brutalized by her divorced father as a child, she is emotionally inert. As a woman she seems less unhappy than confused. Her customary response to a direct question is "I don't know." Needless to say, she is enigmatically beautiful...
...essay called Rebirth of God, The Death of Man, Critic Leslie Fiedler observes that "the New Religious are determined to be no inert congregation rehearsing the words of dead Visionaries and half-mythological Saints, but a living church of actual Visionaries and Saints." To them, writes Fiedler, the death-of-God theology was talking about the death of a method-its own-rather than a subject...
...never bothers to turn on the lights, and as the early evening fades to night, the walls grow ever-closer to her now inert body. She is dozing on the sofa; the beer three-quarters gone. The ash-tray speckled and dusted with the remnants of four half-finished cigarettes...
...fluorocarbons highly inert substances that have the ability to absorb extraordinarily large amounts of dissolved gases performing the oxygen carrying function of red blood cells...
Explaining his new discovery at a symposium on artificial life, Dr. Robert P. Geyer describes the synthetic rats blood as a "milky solution of highly inert flurocarbons and industrial emulsifiers--in fact, not unlike Derek Bok." In a protracted game of double or nothing with Kingman Brewster at the New York Yale Club, Harvard Treasurer George F. Bennett Jr. loses the University's endowment. Posing as a tub resting on its own betters, Bennett is choose to be a contestant on Monty Hall's Let's Make a Deal, where he swaps the Harvard Classes of 77-80 for what...