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...biological attacks, skills picked up during the cold war. But the biggest dangers might not come from missiles bearing nerve agent or VX gas. "Saddam may use nonmilitary chemicals and rig up booby traps that detonate when you open a door or step on something," says Lieut. Colonel Ivo Musil, chief of operations for around 390 Kuwait-based Czech soldiers, part of a "consequence-management team" tasked with detecting and cleaning up after a chemical or biological assault. The vapors of many industrial chemicals - including phosgene, chlorine and simple ammonia - can burn, corrode equipment or even kill. Here...
...Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Beckett, Aichinger, Sartre, Mann and Pirandello; in America with Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Ellison, Capote and Salinger. The antihero, too, searched for unified meaning, but the narrative that held him was all about divisions, schisms and self-inspection. He sought to be by himself, like a god. In Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities and Richard Wright's The Outsider, protagonists become serial killers out of the desire to be alone...
Plenty of domestic opposition remains, however. Despite the President's self-congratulatory language, most environmentalists didn't think the proposal was especially meaningful or far-reaching. "A Band-Aid on a problem that requires a tourniquet," Robert Musil, executive director of the Physicians for Social Responsibility, called it. And many conservative politicians and business leaders ridiculed Clinton's claims that his plan will cause no harm to the economy. It will, insists Republican Representative Bill Paxon of New York, "wind up costing the taxpayers billions of dollars and millions of jobs...
...Memos for the Next Millenium is a slim and dense book. Calvino discusses every form of narrative, from the prose poems of Francis Ponge and the micro-essays of Jorge Luis Borges (quickness) to the encyclopedic and incomplete novels of Robert Musil and Carlo Emilio Gadda (multiplicity). He addresses a variety of literary problems. In his essay on visibility, for example, he contrasts visual and verbal imaginations, examining the prefabricated images of the mass media and their control over how we create pictures from words and words from pictures...
Perhaps these values will be more helpful to an understanding of the literature of the 20th century than to the foundation of a new literature for the 21st. For example, Calvino's comments about the encyclopedic Musil and Gadda, who were both trained as engineers, may shed light on Thomas Pynchon here in America. Also, Calvino has provided a reading list of modern and post-modern European and Latin American writers...