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NONFICTION: The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Michael Davie Dispatches, Michael Herr∙Parallel Botany, Leo Lionni∙Ring, Jonathan Yardley∙The River Congo, Peter Forbath
...surprisingly, Long has a handy response to such charges. "If you have financial interests completely parallel to your state then you have no problem," he declares. Presumably, as Kirkpatrick Sale writes in his book Power Shift, the nearly one million people in Louisiansa who live below the official poverty line might not agree that their financial interests parallel those of their millionaire Senator...
...Parallel Botany, Leo Lionni...
NONFICTION: Chinese Shadows, Simon Leys -The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh,edited by Michael Davie Parallel Botany, Leo Lionni -Ring, Jonathan Yardley -The River Congo, Peter Forbath
...Parallel Botany is the most complete (and only) full-scale guide to this large, bizarre, highly diversified and totally imaginary world. It is also one of the funniest and most brilliant parodies of scientific jargon and scholarship ever published. Standard verdure grows and decays; Lionni's plants do neither. Instead, writes Lionni, they exist outside of time, "like a memory that has taken on actuality." These matterless, insubstantial greens, he notes, "though impervious to any violent acts of nature, disintegrate at the least contact with an object alien to their normal environment, dissolving into dust and leaving only...