Word: nogging
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Rudolph Wurlitzer proves in Nog that the creation of a mind-altering experience need not entail abandonment of conventional verbal expression. He has written a book, a linear book with no non-linear tricks, a book that Gutenberg would recognize as a book, that takes as powerful control over the reader as any of the other approaches people have rediscovered or invented...
...most good traditional novels, one identifies with the characters and, in a sense, enters their lives. In Nog, there is only one character, and the reader's identification is so complete that the two minds-reader's and character's-virtually become one. The book's outlook-for the character is the book-is not an outlook that you rationally recognize and file away. It is a type of perception that you necessarily adopt. And while stories built around gimmicks, Nog's effect lasts after the first reading...
...happened to an even greater degree in Nog, for in Nog, there are not even characters. There is instead the one mind of the book, and the one world of that mind...
...Massachusetts-born Geisel has a B.A. degree from Dartmouth and studied at Oxford University, but has had no art training since walking out on a high-school art teacher who refused to let him draw with his drawing board turned upside down. A cartoon of egg-nog-drinking turtles that he sold to Judge magazine in 1927 financed his marriage to fellow Oxford Student Helen Palmer, who helps him develop his story lines. His career got a big boost when his advertising cartoons for an insecticide made the caption "Quick, Henry, the Flit!" a common household quip...
...herself most to the audience (at least to this particular segment of the audience) was Frances Blakeslee, who bumped magnificently through the part of Gladys--the big, red-haired bomb-shell. From her devastating rendition of I'm a Red Hot Mama to the hearty parody of Plant You Nog' Dig You Later, she showed herself a remarkably skilled comedienne. It was an increasing pleasure to see her bounce onto the stage, wiggle her nose, etc., and let go with that big voice...