Word: nadas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mother is Nada Romanov, "a minor but famous writer" who collects lovers. Father is a high-trapeze-act executive, swinging smoothly from one corporation vice-presidency to another. Both are moral and parental failures. But both, like Richard, are victims as well as executioners...
Married. Jaime Ortiz Patiño, 33, heir to a Bolivian tin fortune; and Nada Takla, 21, a Levantine beauty he met while in Lebanon last summer for a bridge tournament; he for the second time (his first: Manhattan Playgirl Joanne Connelley Sweeny, who died in 1957 while divorce suits were pending); in Geneva...
...plight in the universe was that of an ant colony on a burning log. There was no hope of heaven or sustaining faith in God. In the short story A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, there is a parody of the Lord's Prayer built on the Spanish word nada, meaning nothingness ("Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name"). In The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio, the hero narrator decides that "bread is the opium of the people...
Style for Its Own Sake. The pattern of what Alberto Moravia aptly calls Hemingway's "ingenuous nihilism" was early set, but even Hemingway could not sustain himself on nada, or on bread alone. If life was a short day's journey from nothingness to nothingness, there still had to be some meaning to the "performance en route." In Hemingway's view, the universal moral standard was nonexistent, but there were the clique moralities of the sportsman or the soldier, or, in his own case, the writer. So he invented the Code Hero, the code being "what...