Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These few excerpts may give an idea of the book's surrealistic character, but one has to read it to experience the full randomness of his prose. Some of the stories seem to hint at some theme or another, but more often the events in a particular story seem like the Yourgrau chose them at random, just to see how ridiculous his story could...
...describe the stories best as resembling the dreams we dream every night--sometimes incoherent, usually inexplicable and always random. Most importantly, these stories are extremely interesting and incredibly fun to read. These attributes do not insinuate in any way that the pages of this book are profound, but they are so diverse that they surely connect with the reader at some point in the novel...
...Bacon said that the new non-ordered choice system of house selection, which assigns most students at random to one of four houses they have requested, has been another step in the right direction...
...should reserve a majority of the class space--perhaps 60 percent--for Afro-Am and VES majors, while allowing for students with other interests and backgrounds to fill the rest of the slots. These students could be chosen by a random lottery or by a selection process requiring them to write a short essay about what they think they could learn from and add to the class...
Baker's new book, Vox (Random House; $15), should vault him out of the anteroom of cult writers. Vox is not a voyage into the deep time of interior thought but a story that takes place in the time it takes to read it. Vox's 165 pages consist of a single telephone conversation between a man and a woman, strangers who have both called an adult party line and then decided to have a private conversation. We never find out what they do, how old they are or what they look like, but by the end of Baker...