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...purpose is artistic as well as moral, and his characters talk and behave with appalling plausibility. As for Mauberley, the choice could not be more apposite. Ezra Pound's bloodless hero did not merely suffer from the disease of his age; he was the disease of his age, mute until it was too late, sensitive only for No. 1, fatally solipsistic to the end. As catastrophe beckons, the Duchess of Windsor is heard to complain: "We are led into the light and shown such marvels as one cannot tell . . . and then they turn out all the lights...
Virtually any other subject including ones of far greater importance like the fate of financial aid and the ethical implications of the University's stock portfolio cligits more candid discussion among College officials. When Harvard's unique and often inconsistent alcohol policy is brought up however responses are usually mute or terse...
Feeling a bit like a Martian. I hovered around the edges, mute, having nothing to add. RBI's? ERA's? Pitching stats? It meant nothing to me. It was then that I finally realized something that has been welling up inside me since I was very little: I hate baseball. There--I've said it. Address all hate mail to the Crimson, please...
...love to arrange strange marriages, delighting in such mismatings as an old man with a young girl, an unattractive widow with a youth in his prime, a cripple with a great beauty, a cantor with a deaf woman, a mute with a braggart. Let me tell you about one such 'interesting' union I contrived in Kreshev, which is a town on the river San, that enabled me to be properly abusive...
Such views cry out for refutation in the novel. But after Hitler's Sturm und Drang, his captors and critics remain mute. In effect, Steiner allows A.H. the last word, and ends on a note of bleak ambiguity: the noisy arrival of the first helicopters from the waiting world beyond the jungle. Portage largely avoids both the satisfactions of the traditional novel and the horrifying details of Holocaust literature. Instead, Steiner has taken as his model the political imaginings of an Orwell or Koestler, and although he has not reached their challenging heights, he has produced a philosophic fantasy...