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...engulfs the listener in a musical-mystical doomsday. "It sounds," says Kagel, "as if the organ were exhaling her soul." For Ligeti's equally iconoclastic Etude No. 1, Zacher hooked a vacuum-cleaner motor to the organ pipes to achieve a tiny flow of air and precisely the "pale, unearthly and strange" tone color specified by the composer...
Personal Force. At 15, petit Marcel climbed into his father's old sweatsuit and began training under the paternal eye of Filippi. At 16, he made his Paris debut in a three-rounder that was billed as the rebirth of French boxing. Pale and visibly trembling, the teenager won a narrow decision over an unknown Algerian, returned to his dressing room and fainted. After turning pro at 21, Marcel Jr. fought 47 bouts against carefully chosen opponents over the next five years, winning 46 and drawing one to become the world's tenth-ranked welterweight. Earlier this year...
...Barthelme characters and Barthelme settings pale beside Barthelme plots-or what passes as plots. One story consists of 100 sentences, neatly numbered. Another story, Sentence, is just that: 7½ pages of breathless, free-form monologue dotted by commas, colons, even exclamation points, but nary a period-not even at the end. The Explanation is formed as a series of questions and answers. But the answers start turning into questions themselves, and of course nothing is ever explained...
...short stories of Willa Gather, but the lines could be used without revision to describe some of her own small classics. Noon Wine (1937), a short novel, recounts a stark frontier tragedy of murder and remorse as muted and inevitable as anything by Thomas Hardy. Another flawless short novel, Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939), describes the descent of a consciousness toward death-and its reluctant return to life -with mesmeric power...
...happy being here despite the growing proclivity to regard some opinions as outside the pale, unworthy of consideration, their proponents unworthy of courteous treatment. Men are not moved by reason alone, but they are not unaffected by rational argument. There can be no argument without contrasting positions. There can be no contrast without a decent regard for the opinions of intelligent...