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...Bible, Job correctly assumes he is personally targeted. (The reader knows he is the object of a wager between God and Satan.) The Guthries must wonder, Have they too been selected for their fate? In the 1600s, such a couple might have seen their plight as evidence that they had sinned or were passed over for salvation. But American Protestants have largely abandoned such harsh Calvinism. At Hope's memorial, the Guthries' pastor, Charles McGowan, recalled Jesus' encounter with the blind man. When asked, "Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" Jesus replies...
...problems with men, or at least she thought she had. (Same difference.)" About film footage of Jackie Kennedy: "She looks so young, Wallingford thought. (She was young--it was 1961!)." Irving has always been a generous author, but here his constant fussing to make sure that the reader is comfortable and picking up every single nuance grows wearisome. Hush, please, we're trying to read...
...what do I do with all these failed CDs? A colleague here told me her father hangs his in the garden to scare away birds and deer. Any other ideas? The reader with the most inventive use for a useless CD wins a box of coasters...
Pynchon dips in and out of perspectives in a single paragraph without notice, fuses reality with fantasy without rousing disbelief and purposefully obscures to make the reader feel the same discomfort and paranoia that his characters experience. His intelligence shines on the thick mud of his prose to reveal its beauty...
...latest literary effort by Henry A. Kissinger ’50, “Does America Need a Foreign Policy? Toward a Diplomacy for the 21st century,” sheds little light on the latest round of controversy of which he is the center. In fact, a skeptical reader might say it sheds little light on anything...