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Sure enough, these people, or rather Everett's fictional versions of them, begin speaking on his pages. Here is Einstein: "I must try to understand certain irreducible laws of the universe as a transcendent behavior. In these laws, God, the Old One, will be manifest." Here is Wittgenstein: "I have argued that the truths of silence, when spoken, are no longer true...
...logging on daily to check out what "Vivian" is up to--you can even leave your name and e-mail address so she can contact you "should something major be going on, or just to say hello." One wonders what "major" fictional event could possibly be important enough to manifest itself tangibly--did Vivian get an invisible run in her virtual stockings...
...safely assume that such a conversation has never been held in the offices of Vogue. But if this is not the stuff of big-time publishing, idiosyncrasy has been a theme of Eggers' career--and it's manifest as well in his unusual forthcoming memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Simon & Schuster; 375 pages; $23), whose playful, reflexive title and prose belie its painful family story...
...While Harvard students assume the trappings of religious belief, they say their beliefs do not manifest themselves on a regular basis...
...Hollow Lands, having its premiere at the South Coast Repertory of Costa Mesa, Calif., is not your garden-variety revisionist history. Bleak and Brechtian in style, it has no overt political message; no easy, retroactive moralizing about the sins of our ancestors. Achieving the nation's "Manifest Destiny," it implies, was not a great quest or a great crime but a kind of communal neurosis, a manic need to chart the uncharted--an endeavor people in the play are constantly, fuzzily describing as "freedom." Yet those great white spaces of terra incognita on the map are being filled in faster...