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COURSES OF INSTRUCTION depicts a world safely ruled by reason. a world where knowledge and order prevail over the alien and the unknowable. The most trivial-seeming remarks in this catalogue suggest the existence of a firm underlying logic. A note appended to a course in art history--"Enrollment: Limited...
Even the language of this book, like that of Rules Relating, is most rational when it seems most unreal. A course entitled "Sound and Light: Mass Telecommunications as an Avenue to Civilized Society" has this note following its description:
Full perfume of the swamp, indeed. Whether a scholar who writes in so deep a shade of purple can even comprehend shame is uncertain. Yet Wolfs conclusion has some merit. Stoker, who was secretary to the actor Sir Henry Irving, shrewdly swotted Transylvanian geography and vampire lore at the British...
As in the fiction of Samuel Beckett, a clearly evolving narrative line has been sacrificed in favor of a radically fragmented, almost pulverized texture. Directional melodies and harmonies have been replaced by sudden bursts of sound, explosions of something not quite rational or explicable.
...administration saddled with a deficit of roughly $760 million in a budget of $3.3 billion. The state of Massachusetts is in almost as bad a situation as New York City--worse in terms of options for the future--so if there were ever an opportunity and a ready-made rationale for change, you would think this was it. Many expected just that, Dukakis, who distinguished himself as a somewhat cool and analytical state representative in a Legislature of born actors, had been at least a consistent supporter of liberal, sometime radical, programs. His major legislative coup was the passage...