Word: longings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took me by surprise. I haven't read any of Grass's books, not even The Tin Drum (heck, I haven't even seen the movie), but it was my understanding that he was one of the best living writers and that his Nobel Prize for literature was long overdue. Maybe so, but his Nobel Lecture strikes me as the sort of thing that wouldn't command much attention if delivered from any other venue...
According to Grass, "literature has an explosive quality at its root, though the explosions literature releases have a delayed-action effect...How long did it take the European Enlightenment from Montaigne to Voltaire, Diderot, Kant, Lessing and Lichtenberg to introduce a flicker of reason into the dark corners of scholasticism?...But when the light finally did brighten things up, it turned out to be the light of cold reason, limited to the technically doable, to economic and social progress, a reason that claimed to be enlightened but that merely drummed a reason-based jargon (which amounted to instructions for progress...
...player we're most concerned about," captain Damian Long said. "We're going to try to rotate guys in and out on defense to go to work on him. No matter who we put up on him, though, it'll be a tough match...
...know they haven't shot the ball all that well this year from outside," said Long. "We need to watch [the guards], but if we focus too much on them, they'll just feed the ball inside...
...just need to make sure we're not pressing the issue," said Long. "We need to create shots and give guys good looks...