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...moon. Two white urchins discover a brown boy barely old enough to walk. Jingly verse that recalls The Threepenny Opera teeters on murder: "Come says Jack let's knock him on the head, No says Guy let's buy him some bread." The happy ending is cold comfort: a ruck of bony children trying to sleep in a shantytown. This is brilliant and powerful stuff, but it is hard to imagine reading it to a child. Some adults may feel, under the baleful influence of Sendak's parable, that it is hard to imagine having a child...
What sets her well apart from the ruck of writers is the lash and sting of her language. She can summon ferocity without effort, can smilingly backhand reader or character into a tumbled heap. But she uses this violent gift in a curiously selective way. At the outset of The Shipping News, she demeans her hero, a blobby, unfocused man named Quoyle, as "a dog dressed in a man's suit for a comic photo," who possesses "a great damp loaf of a body." His faithless wife is "thin, moist, hot . . . in another time, another sex, she would have been...
Come Rugby season, we can look forward to a barrage of posters urging students to watch the Harvard teams, "ruck over Columbia," (or whoever the opponent of the week is). The humor, I suppose, derives from the provocative fact that the word "ruck" rhymes with the American colloquialism which connotes copulation. Unfortunately, most people have, since elementary school, exhausted the possibilities that this rhyme pattern offers--with words such as duck, truck, luck, puck, muck, and suck, many of which are even commonly used in America...
After a highly successful fall tour, the women who like to ruck are out to build on that...