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After a few months of being snubbed, Nora is standing alone on her front porch on New Year's Eve in her black cocktail dress listening to the music from the neighborhood party, wondering where her life is going and whether she will ever be included in the circle of laughter. So masterly drawn is Nora that whenever her heart aches this way, so does ours...
...MEET ELEANOR while I walk down the main street of Port Matilda, which is landlocked and not a port at all. She is restaining an ancient rocking chair on her porch. Eighty-two years old, she has lived in that town all her life. She is not unusual. Most people I meet are natives. When I ask one man if he has lived there all his life, he tells me, "Naw, I was born up the road two miles and lived there till...
This rural part of central Pennsylvania is one of the few places I've visited where a strong social fabric continues to bind a community together. Women walk their children through town and say "hi" to everyone they meet. Men gather in the evening on a porch and talk. Children ride their bicycles up and down the dirt roads. Though I can not accept their values, I envy their sense of community. And I can thank them for letting me--briefly--into their lives...
Silber has toned down his rhetoric since then, but he remains as addicted to controversy as a moth is to a porch light. Last month he suggested that funds for teenage welfare mothers who have more than one child be cut off. He enraged the party establishment by comparing the 15% convention threshold to the exclusionary tactics Southern white supremacists used to keep blacks out of politics...
...appeared in 1984. Now, at last, comes Vineland, Pynchon's first novel in nearly 17 years, and the faithful can again begin the quest for runic meanings, preferably hidden. And right up at the top of the second page of text, something interesting glimmers: "Desmond was out on the porch, hanging around his dish, which was always empty because of the blue jays who came screaming down out of the redwoods and carried off the food in it piece by piece...