Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...necessary to kick him, otherwise he won't perform, and if he doesn't perform there's no poem. Because a poem is a reciprocal kind of action between the writer and the reader. No reader, no poem. It's like unperformed music, Bach scores lying in manuscript for hundreds of years. That's what a poem unread is like...Not too good...So you get the reader awake, and once he's awake you make sure he stays awake. And you tell him all of things he doesn't want to hear. But you tell them...
...make The Soft Machine even less coherent than his grotesque Naked Lunch, William Burroughs scissored up his manuscript and pasted it back together higgledy-piggledy before turning it in to his publishers. Result: a hallucinatory little nonbook of babble whose most distinguishing feature is a preoccupation with sodomy and the dubious joys thereof. Burroughs apologists insist that there are plot and Profound Meaning imbedded in the book, but only a cultist will find them...
...Draz, 42, a graduate of Denison University in Ohio, also holds master's degrees in history (University of Pennsylvania) and library science (Western Reserve). Draz came to Time Inc. after a 61-year stint at the Library of Congress, where he headed the Reader Service Section of the Manuscript Division and later the Public Refer ence Section of the General Refer ence and Bibliography Division...
...Last Chapter. To a generation once removed from the holocaust of European Jewry, The Last Chapter will be an illuminated manuscript of what once was and can never be again. To some of those whose memories are longer, it will be a film almost too bitter to bear...
...read the pages covered with his wife's precise handwriting, and discovered to his amazement that it was a suspense tale about a British couple who undertook a mission for the Foreign Office under the noses of the Nazis in Germany. He was unable to put the manuscript down until he had read the last page...