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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: End of the Road | 10/16/1972 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By James Rieger, | Title: Thom Gunn, Poet: Convokes Absences | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

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