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...readership of Zoditch, Chulkaturin's history is played out among the paraphernalia of Zoditch's boarding house. The first reader's bed serves the focus for much of the action--parior scenes, forest scene, garden scenes all occur around the bed, on which Zoditch, himself sits, reading the manuscript, impervious and scornful...
There is no doubt that the work is authentic. The original 20-page, handwritten manuscript is stored at the University of Texas' Humanities Research Center at Austin, the main repository of Waugh's papers since 1967. U.T. Research Librarian Ellen Dunlap notes that the unbound folio of Schooldays bears the novelist's signature and the date Oct. 13, 1945. It is reasonable to assume that Waugh, flushed with Brideshead"s critical and popular success, decided to give a primed public more about Charles Ryder. Chapter 1 bears one piece of sad news: his mother was killed...
...question remains: How did a 1945 manuscript by a major writer get lost in a welter of financial records? Sissons can think of only one reason: "Peters must have been clearing out his desk, found the typescript and just dropped it in the 1970 file...
...least for a while, Kriss had more hospitable surroundings for his work: the Caribbean island of St. Maarten, where he spent ten days working on the Kissinger manuscript...
...centeredness of some of his "ace" emblems and the awkward postures of sun-struck California figures in his paintings from 25 years ago. But that comes from consistency. Part of Diebenkorn's essential tone has always been the way his first pictorial impulses survive in the written-over manuscript of his work. His mastery of his own long-considered syntax has never led him to smooth out the quirks. Diebenkorn is a great stylist, and what gives life to style is a certain disequilibrium. These modest drawings clearly signal an interesting turn in his work. Will a series...