Word: patheticism
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Despite its gargantuan doomed predecessor--the thrown-away thousands of pages--Fish is a lean volume, just 217 pages. It concerns the narrator, a private school teacher named Karp by his parents but nicknamed Fish by his girlfriend, who tries to escape from a life of "vagueing," in the author...
An Irving bear is a pathetic creature whose strength and dignity are ridiculed by its overriding need to perform. Explains the author: "They have become good at learning tricks to amuse people, but they have been reduced to a shadow show, like so many people who have been taught the...
Malevolent but pathetic, dying but dangerous, the buffalo looms from the canvas in all his massive black bulk, with the mythic menace of a dying Minotaur. Two linked tents frame a ceremony in a design as elegant as that on a Japanese screen. An Indian family flees from an approaching...
Save for one or two which don't work, however, the performances are extraordinary. Bridges plays the languid stud with perfection. His Golden Boy is the perfect quirkly foil for Cutter's sometimes maudlin, been-to-hell-and-back humor and disrespect. Cutter uses his maiming to control people at...
Frank Trippett points his Freudian finger at 15 world figures, ranging from Lee lacocca to John Lennon, and implies they could all self-destruct because of a "pathetic private weakness." Instead of self-destructing, they have made successful contributions to our world. Self-confidence helped them get to the top...