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...Pico Iyer in his praise of changing seasons displayed a deep fascination for nature and an understanding so lacking in modern life [ESSAY, April 1]. Oh, how has modern man lost the imagination to capture the awesome rhythm of the seasons, of night and day, light and darkness, sun and moon? It's a poor existence indeed if we cannot find the time to stand and stare at all the loveliness and mystery, small and great, that surrounds us--like the coming of spring. GRAY PHOMBEAH London...
...offers in his second novel a happy discourse on love and the nature of the words "I love you." De Botton comes to realize that these words can be a question, a prompt or an opening bid. "Light as a souffle, and no less addictive," saysTIME book critic Pico Iyer, "The Romantic Movement is that happiest of artifacts, a novel that smiles."Previous TIME Daily
...notes TIME contributor Iyer lost when his home in Santa Barbara was consumed by fire in 1990 were for a planned nonfiction volume on Cuba, which would have been his fourth book. Thus bereft, Iyer turned to his imaginatioin and recast the work as a first novel. In that sense, he says, "it really is the book that rose from the ashes...