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Language is for Nabokov a realm in itself, where, for instance, "by some mnemoptical trick" something cherry-red is remembered as applegreen. A new word brings a new kind of reality. The writer's language constructs a wonderland of possibility--witty, dreamy, tidy--somewhere in the gap between language and every day life. What kind of world would it be if the word "tralatitions," which makes the title of R.'s book, were as common as its synonym, "metaphor"? What it there were a town in Switzerland where present objects bulged transparent with their parts...
...Person dies in a mysterious fire which re-enacts the dream in which he strangled his wife, does it mean that the being of the novel parallels that state of dreaming? Nabokov's last sentence tells of the death of the hero but also takes leave of the strange realm the novel has created: "This is, I believe, it: not the crude anguish of physical death but the incomparable pang of the mysterious mental maneuver needed to pass from one state of being to another...
...ESSAY, page 96). As economist Arthur Okun, a McGovern adviser , puts it. "The things that helped him win the division pennant have hurt him in in the World Series." When McGovern belatedly buried the demogrant idea in August, he alienated many more people, who decided that in the realm of economics he simply does not know what he is talking about...
...first glance, is a same and objective discussion of the use of drugs in this country and its probable cause, its value and impact go much further. Because Andrew Weil trusted his own response to drugs and altered states of consciousness, he has been able to explore the realm of the human mind unhampered by the dictates of medical and psychological experts. Because he followed the classic route of the medical student, and acquainted himself thoroughly with the methods, goals, and biases of drug researchers, he has been able to come to terms with modern and medical failings and foibles...
...determining what he can reasonably be expected to give. Otherwise, governments often confuse taking a stance with seeking a solution. As illustration, Fisher cites the economic blockade of Cuba. "Suppose Fidel Castro called up the President and said, 'You win; send down your terms. Anything within the realm of reason, I will sign.' How many weeks would it require to figure out what the U.S. would like to have happen that it could reasonably expect to have happen? The failure to identify, at least to ourselves, some realistic objectives makes it less likely that we will be able...