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...actually reads like a post-modern Hindu campfire story. The fifteen sections of the book recount all the stories contained in the major theological and mythological texts of India, but Calasso does not assume any prior knowledge of the Rig-Veda, the Mahabharata or the like, nor does he linger on the stories' historical background. His versions of the great myths are fresh and exciting (if slightly bizarre and grotesque) fairy tales of a sort, not historical or ideological records, and are accompanied by a running modern philosophical commentary by the articulate and learned Calasso ("Is there any part...
...them as you walk through campus. Some of them are dialing as they cruise through the Yard, others briskly chatting as they linger near the steps of Sever. Are these folks so popular that being inaccessible for several hours would be fatal to their social lives? Why all of sudden is our campus studded with cell phone owners...
...pacemaker, be advised: research shows that certain kinds of antitheft systems located at store exits may interfere with your device. Though it rarely happens, electromagnetic fields from some surveillance systems may cause a pacemaker to speed up or slow down temporarily. To stay on the safe side, don't linger around exits...
...well. The grief is unbearable but its melody is so sweet, so fragile, Bacharach and Costello seem to wonder who can live without it. Like love itself, of course, no one can. As in these desolate and beautiful stories, Painted from Memory suggests, we too may linger on the comforting ache of love remembered, complicit in our own exquisite misery. Misery, after all, is just another kind of tenderness, only slightly transposed. Cue the strings, the fashionable flugelhorns. I'm with Costello and Bacharach: I'll take the memories...
...Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Random House; 774 pages; $30), Ron Chernow, author of two earlier epic works of business history (The House of Morgan and The Warburgs), has produced one of the great American biographies. Rockefeller may linger in the national memory as a fading capitalist icon, a moral double exposure from long ago, but his story (and that of Standard Oil and the great trust-busting struggles at the turn of the century) becomes an interesting rear-view mirror at the turn of another century, at a moment when the Federal Government has moved against...