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...ideals. The words "Some even regard him as a living saint" appear on the screen, which is generally bad news for the living saint, especially if he's got a wife around to point out all the ways in which her husband is actually flesh and blood who never takes out the garbage...
...sure of Tolstoy's preferences. Throughout the movie, he wavers between Chertkov's will and Sofya's, but he never displays complete conviction toward either. As he waffles, our perspective shifts accordingly. Is this a writer who believes in power to the people and doesn't want to be nagged by his selfish wife in his last days? Or a confused old man, susceptible to flattery and not up to his own standards of mental agility...
...Lockau-Vogel, a management consultant who participated in a recent job-crafting workshop, says the exercise helped her adjust her priorities. "Before, I would spend so much time reacting to requests and focusing on urgent tasks that I never had time to address the real important issues." As part of the job-crafting process, she decided on a strategy for delegating and outsourcing more of her administrative responsibilities...
...through the testimony of friends, lovers, acquaintances and total strangers. But by the book’s end, the two have parted ways with Madero and the last pages belong, fittingly, to him. “Someday the police will catch Belano and Lima, but they’ll never find us,” his girlfriend Lupe assures him. “Oh, Lupe, how I love you, but how wrong you are,” he replies in his journal, to himself and to us. Bolaño suspends Madero’s fate: as readers, we know...
...Magaña, or at least that’s how he wrote it, but he pronounced it Magana, so that when he said it you heard Macgana, as if the self-sucking faggot was of Scottish descent.” Soon enough, Harry Magaña disappears and never returns. The inconsequence of his place in the world of “2666,” like so many of its characters, projects the novel’s style out onto its very structure; the events and characters in the novel’s five books don?...