Word: namee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...silent. "What in the name of God am I doing here?" He thought to himself. "What am I doing here in this group of withered, sterile. Christ - forsaken, half - dead Americans? Is this it? We will tell our secrets and love--love in an encounter group nutshell." He felt cynical and cool as the circle reformed, and he went back to his place by the window...
...want to know why Elizabeth looked so sad," she said. Her name was Susie. "When I opened my eyes, I saw Elizabeth sitting against the wall, looking sad, and I want to know...
Music remains Hollander's primary means of what he rather loftily calls "searching for meaning." Recently, he asked himself whether it was really his ambition to make a lot of money and keep his name in the papers. He decided that what he really wanted was to avoid being up tight ("Why should I be so wrought up that I pace the floor before a concert?"), have a satisfying marriage, spend time with friends, read philosophy and pursue the charmingly ingenuous notion that he is "alive, sensing, part of the universe." He says: "I could work myself into...
...narrator's real name is never known, although he assumes names such as Lou Garrou, a play on the French word for werewolf. But beginning with his park-bench encounters and reveries -which are somewhat reminiscent of James Purdy's Malcolm-both narrator and reader are plunged into the dark underside of a surrealist life as lived by some decidedly improper Bostonians. Altogether betrayed by his faithless wife and conniving business agent who tricks him into painting the Da Vinci forgery, the narrator complains that he has been tipped into a "maelstrom of false marcheses, mercenary Bergamese whores...
...misadventure" on the lonely, dusty roads of India. Cholera, smallpox and snakebite were among the popular certified causes of death. The actual cause, in more cases than not: death by strangling at the well-muscled hands of murderous religious fanatics called Thugs, who perversely justified their killing in the name of the Hindu goddess Kali but robbed for the immense benefit of themselves. George Bruce, journalist and Orientalist, examines these remarkable evildoers and with British understatement measures their crime and eventual punishment...