Word: nash
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...audience present at the start on Saturday, however, was rapt. Greer I. Gilman, who works at the Widener Library Preservation Department, was among those witnessing the start of the reading. Greer, who brought along her own dog-eared copy of the "obscure and very attractive book," said she appreciated Nash's "passion and his fanatic heart...
...Nash originally planned to continue reading until 12 p.m. on Sunday. Close to midnight he completed the novel much ahead of schedule, and then began another of O'Brien's novels...
...only two spectators lingered, one of them sleeping. At approximately 1:15 a.m., Nash called off the reading. He explained that a few minutes earlier, his "neck and cheek muscles had started going into spasms...
...Nash had postered extensively for his reading, inviting his audience members to "come and go as they please." Nash, who sees himself as a "proselytizer" on O'Brien's behalf, said he hoped to draw attention to the greatness of this often-overlooked author. According to Nash, O'Brien "took the novel apart at its seams when [deconstructionist philosopher Jacques] Derrida was still in his nappies...
...reading was not the first tribute to O'Brien that Nash has conducted. Last year he staged a one-man show based on O'Brien's works called, "The Hair of the Dogma." The show ran last August at the Loeb Experimental Theatre and Nash performed it in Berlin and Dublin this summer...