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...landscape to Paris, where it furnished him with boundless material for his writing. After two years of writing poetry, he turned to novels. His first succes d'estime, A Kiss for the Leper, was a projection of his own youthful fears. The leading character, an ungainly, misshapen provincial lad, marries a girl who is physically repelled by him. Only on his death can she begin to love him. Into The Leper are woven the themes that run through the later books: the subtle corruption of sensuality, the deep self-loathing that accompanies love, the glimmer of salvation when...
Egged on by all the activity, one Carr Mill lad has compiled a list of 60 puns containing the word egg (eggsperiment, eggshausted, eggcetera). Others are learning egg statistics (record number of eggs eaten at one sitting: 47) and making a large model of the egg of the extinct elephant bird. Says Headmaster Appleton: "In this school, it is eggs with everything...
...Colin Maclnnes. Yon's what comes of reading too many 18th century novels. The daft lad's gone and written one himself...
...this basically serious exercise in parody, Maclnnes adopts the young narrator-adventurer common to 18th century fiction. He is one Alexander Nairn, a pushy Scots lad but a bit of a Presbyterian prig. Alexander ships from Liverpool on a slaver carrying blacks from Africa on the final leg of their journey to West Indian sugar plantations...
...telephone company finally had to give him a new, unlisted phone number; incoming calls were paralyzing the local switchboard. In Manhattan, Brody rented an office on Broadway as a clearinghouse for his largesse. Ed Sullivan introduced him on television as "the wonderfully generous Michael James Brody," and the lad loosely strummed his guitar and sang a Bob Dylan song...