Word: rastignac
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...town against "Huckle berry Cohen," Rastignac or whatever literary allusion Gold chooses. There are temptations denied. Gold rejects a p.r. man's proposal to turn him into a rich and famous literary package with his name in Leonard Lyons' column. One wishes Gold had gone on to explain how his name eventually did get into Lyons' column...
...terrified warriors of the age of Ethelred and such perennial noblemen of the suicidal beau geste as Claus von Stauffenberg. Different only in degree are the tattooed and/or black-jacketed hoods, the "brave, terrible" queers, "fallen from/ The heights of twenty to middle age," such classic, superannuated hustlers as Rastignac, and "a few with historical/names"--Baudelaire, Caravaggio. Within them all persists the sullenness and flabby dignity of Shakespeare's besotted bed-athlete. Some like him are still determined to "fight maliciously . . . set my teeth, and send to darkness all that stop me." All "mock the midnight bell" with their varied...
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