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James Joyce demonstrated among other things that even in the works of a genius the stream of consciousness not infrequently turns out to be a Mississippi of malarkey, but the lesson seems to have been lost upon Giuseppe Berto, a well-known Italian novelist (Il Cielo è Rosso) whose obvious talents fall considerably short of genius but whose latest novel, Incubus, nevertheless opens the sluices of association and requires the reader to navigate as best he can a torrent of reminiscence, admittedly autobiographical but attributed in the text to an aging author who some years previously, on the occasion...
...senselessly clubbed another boy to death. There was a public outcry for a hanging, and the boy was duly sentenced to die, but not before Rogers, a lifelong foe of capital punishment, had fought the case to the Supreme Court with tenacity and eloquence. Beneath Rogers' malarkey, his swagger and his courtroom stunts was a real compassion for the outcasts of the world. "Who are we to take life, life given to this man by whatever power gives life?" he demanded. "To rob him of his chance to repent, to expiate, to throw him straight into hell like...
...introduced a lupine character named Simple J. Malarkey, who looked so much like the late U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (whom Kelly called "one of the great alltime comedians") that the Orlando, Fla., Sentinel threw out Kelly's strip, and several other papers filed complaints. Again in 1958, when the furor over public school integration reached one of its peaks, Kelly set Pogo the possum to talking about "speakeasy" schoolrooms, "consegregated," "de-consegregated" and "non-un-de-consegregated" schools. One Southern paper, by judicious editing, purified the sequence for its readers, and another dropped it entirely...
...Malarkey...
...That business about raising fines from two to five to ten dollars is a lot of malarkey," declared Councilor Vellucci. "It'll drive business right out of the city...