Word: palimpsests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Palimpsest. After Pat's stroke, Roald settled the family in their country house outside London. He set up a relentless therapy schedule and organized relay teams of visitors to keep the patient's morale up. Pat's principal enemy was despair. Her career seemed shattered. Her right leg was bracketed in an unsightly brace, and her brain was as faint and blurry as a palimpsest. She fished in vain for the names of common objects. Even Peter Rabbit eluded...
Verses & Wine. This feeling made a Utopian socialist of him. He influenced generations of obscure idealists throughout the world who read his News from Nowhere, a palimpsest of nonexistent felicities, as if it were a blueprint for the future. The illogic inherent in the notion that an infatuation with wimples, rood screens and the music of madrigals played on hautboys should give him title to prescribe for future generations seldom troubled Morris. If it had, he could not have led a life of such vigor and achievement...
...which Finnegan-Earwicker goes through mankind's plunge and rise as he "falls" asleep only in the end to "wake" to life. H. C. Earwicker's initials, as he himself explains, also stand for Here Comes Everybody and Haveth Childers Everywhere; his dreamscape is like a palimpsest in which myth overlays legend overlaying lore. Anna Livia Plurabelle (Jane Reilly) is also Dublin's river Liffey (life). His sons Shem and Shaun are, among others, Lucifer and the Archangel Michael. The film's multipersonaed hero himself combines such disparate characters as Adam, Tristram and Jonathan Swift. Joyce...
...Daniel Bell, a city is "syncretistic" and New York is an exemplary "palimpsest." Shadows of that city's three historic "faces" remain part of its character: the 19th century port city; the "nervously swift" manufacturer at the turn of the century; and the settling place for "glass house" corporations in the 1950's. And with the mushrooming of the "culture hungry" class, Bell sees the "face" of the '60's and '70's forming: New York as the cultural city...
...rises with the sun and stands on his head. I ask him upside down what he wants for breakfast, and it's the usual oats, wheat, fruit, yogurt. Then he's off and running. He doesn't have a schedule-it's a palimpsest...