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...wondered, in another story, whether the "A" of adultery might not stand for admirable. Williams is full of similar moral ambivalence. His oppressive, superheated tropics are Poe's "ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir," and his characters some times seem like Poe's spectral phantoms of a locked-in ego, walking somnambulically to their dooms. Williams shares Melville's somber cosmic dread. It was of the Encantadas, the desolate islands of the Galapagos, that Melville wrote: "In no world but a fallen one could such lands exist." And it is "on the beach of the Encantadas" that Sebastian...
...Poe in The Business Man and Melville in The Confidence Man aimed scathing, satirical barbs at the rising commercial spirit of the 19th century. Williams finds an ethical void at the heart of urban industrial civilization and poses against it the values-the honor, gallantry and chivalry-of the dead agrarian Southern past. "Let there be something to mean the word honor again," pleads Don Quixote in Camino Real...
During that convalescence, Mrs. Williams read to him constantly: "We used up all the children's books, and I had to turn to Scott, Thackeray, Dickens." Tom's grandfather, who knew Milton's Paradise Lost by heart, recited poetry to him. "Grandfather was crazy about Poe. He was interested in the macabre," says Williams...
Black Despair. Like his father, Yesenin-Volpin is a natural anarchist. "Only a morally and mentally defective person can fail to reach a stage of extreme indignation in the Soviet Union," he wrote. Yesenin-Volpin expressed his sense of outrage in a parody of Poe...
...their gifts. Like many another bridegroom, Washington's Jonathan Roosevelt, 21, son of Kermit Roosevelt and great-grandson of T.R., gaped at the store-sized inventory of presents ("Look at all that stuff") before his marriage this week to Jae Barlow, 20, a descendant of Edgar Allan Poe. Latest count of shower and wedding gifts for Barlow and Roosevelt: about 550 items...