Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alone. Norah sends Joel to a woman psychiatrist (Lovelady Powell), but she isn't much help, being apparently as puzzled about him as the rest of us. "I never understood why you went to live in the East Village when you came back from Tangier," she says, a remark which slightly advances the plot, but not the analysis...
...having passed seventy", writes Borges in his preface to Doctor Brodie's Report, "I believe I have found my own voice". A strange remark, for the author of a fiction which challenges the very premises of individual identity or ontological certainty. Borges goes on to describe his stories--"To use the term in vogue today"--as "realistic", and to assert that they "follow all the conventions of that school". By now, we might guess that the sly master of fiction is pulling our leg. It would not be unlike Borges to lead us up another erudite blind alley, casting...
...occupations. The classic reiver anecdote has Auld Wat Scott of Harden being served a pair of spurs in a covered dish by his wife-a hint that the larder was bare and that he had better go rustle a few cows. (Auld Wat is also credited with a memorable remark to a haystack, which he noticed while returning from a raid: "Aye, if ye had four legs ye wouldna stand there lang...
Bunting countered His remark by saying. "I've always been fond of kind brothers, although I'm not too sure about the kin part in this case...
...first book, The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (TIME, March 2, 1970), John Seelye rewrote Mark Twain as an answer to nearly a century of carping critics. In The Kid, he makes American folklore and literary archetypes jump through hoops, in obvious appreciation of Leslie Fiedler's remark that "to understand the West as somehow a joke comes a little closer to getting it straight...