Word: porter
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Ship of Fools, by Katherine Anne Porter. The ship is a German passenger-freighter that steams from Vera Cruz to Bremerhaven in 1931. The allegory is that this and all passages of the world's voyage are dismal; the art is consummate...
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BOOKS Best Reading Ship of Fools, by Katherine Anne Porter. The ship is a German passenger-freighter that steams from Veracruz to Bremerhaven in 1931; the allegory is that this and all passages of the world's voyage are dismal; the art is consummate...
...giddy gloom of youth -"the world is bad (but I am young)," nor is it the envy of faltering age - "the world is good (but I am old)." And al though the novel is a bitter distillate of all the wonderful skill that made Kather ine Anne Porter's reputation in the '305, it avoids the smugness of the satisfied satirist - "the world is disgusting (but I am clever)." In fact there are no personal obtrusions, nothing of the gracious, 70-year-old Southern gentlewoman who in the 20 years since her last book has seemed to occupy...
...foulness was the rise of pride-injured German nationalism, and the fools were the onlookers to whom it seemed merely an unimportant local nastiness. This is the specific burden of Novelist Porter's Ship, and the author directs the passengers of the Vera brilliantly as they play out their assigned charades...