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...blends black comedy, amateur psychology, and homage to Homeric epithet, like “Don Juan the Rib, in civilian life a hairdresser, and additionally, a musician.” Epithets like this one, while routine, help define the characters as much for Jerzy as they do for the reader. But as it turns out, the validity of their stories is uncertain; Jerzy stakes his position in the rehabilitation center by retelling (or rather, recreating) the lives of the various alcoholics. A typical truck driver becomes the Most Wanted Terrorist in the World; a hairdresser and musician becomes Don Juan...
...even recognize him physically as a human: “[Bachmann] hauled off and poked his stick into the ghost’s side. It writhed with pain and made faces. You’ve hurt my kidney, the critter whimpered.” Though the reader and Bachmann eventually learn that Schnotz was once just as inhuman a soldier as he is now a woodland critter, Schnotz’s Gollum-like wildness emphasizes his pathetic fall from the military, society, and humanity. In addition, Lind captures his subjects with kind of dual childishness and precision; in sketching...
...mythic allegory, and it greatly hampers Rodoreda’s attempt at the creation of a satisfying fictional universe. Whether the novel’s emotional gap is a result of Tennent’s translation or Rodoreda original work, other aspects of the novel are simply inaccessible to readers outside the Catalan culture. Recurring images and motifs are, for the same reason, often mysterious. What is the significance of “wisteria” to the author? We are treated to images of wisteria flowers after wisteria flowers, even a “wisteria-laden night...
...couple of decades thereafter, 3-D would make a comeback. The lightweight sex comedy The Stewardesses, filmed in single-strip Stereovision, was a hit in 1970; and the first hardcore 3-D movie, The Starlets, came out in 1977. (I leave the stereoptical effects of this picture to the reader's imagination.) The 1983 Jaws 3-D, utilizing a single-camera process called Arrivision, was an example of several horror series whose third episode was in 3-D (Friday the 13rd Part 3, Amityville 3-D). That 1990 TIME story was heralding a liquid-crystal technology called IMAX Solido. Since...
...bolstered is in MySpace's plans going forward. Though Angwin makes the case that MySpace and Facebook are fundamentally different sites, the latter is currently in the ascendant - so much so that a book devoted to MySpace's origins seems almost dated. Angwin doesn't leave the reader with a clear picture of how the site will continue to grow, but this may be out of the author's control. Perhaps MySpace isn't quite sure about that either...