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Sweet Wine. A fault line had opened in history, and all that had been taken as normal vanished into its rumbling cleft. Total war of this kind was unknown to living memory in 1914. Gavrilo Princip's bullet in Sarajevo destroyed a peace so long and so continuous that...
Honda has aged twenty years in the second volume, Runaway Horses. He is now a judge in the Court of Appeals. A young man named Isao is brought before him, accused of conspiring in a right-wing plot against the government. Honda resigns his position and successfully pleads the boy...
For all its arms and legs, the book remains something of a paper chase. Why? In part, one suspects, because the struggle occurs mostly in Little England, a political shire now shorn of power and purpose, where there may simply be too much central heating for the spy who comes...
Yet Lovecraft had real talent too. After a while his reverberant prose seems mesmeric. Well did he know that true terror lies in the tension between our scientific age's rationalism and our primordial sense of individual powerlessness-of being enmeshed in something vast, inexplicable and appallingly evil. For...
Getting back to innocence, or to primal crudity (for Dubuffet they are the same), without becoming a stylist is one of the 20th century's dreams. It presupposes a return to the origins of form, to the half-articulate, the instinctive: uncensored desire. Me Tarzan, you Raphael. Dubuffet'...