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...RIOT of words is given meaning and support by the careful structure of the book. Each section opens with a visit to one of the six Sages that Hatterr consults. Testing the teaching of each Sage, attempting to find an order to life, he is driven into some ludicrous situations-in one segment, for example, he winds up as a human serving dish for the meals of a circus tiger. After each adventure, though, he returns to his friend Banerrji, a staid and stable clerk, who provides Hatterr with an anchor in reality...
...wheel of his racer Tree, Hansberger swooped down the ramp past two middle-aged competitors to record his second straight triumph in the "Big Boys" division of the annual Treasure Valley Soapbox Derby in Boise, Idaho. For senior racers who may hope to emulate him, the timber industrialist has sage advice: "As in many things in life, maintain a low silhouette...
...took Meredith the better part of his life to catch on. Nevertheless, by the time of his death-May 18, 1909-he had come to a glorious Victorian sunset as the Sage of Box Hill. Almost stone-deaf, looking, in Virginia Woolf's phrase, like a ruined bust of Euripides, Meredith held court. When no one else was around, he talked to his dogs. In art, as in life, he was a nonstop talker, and it is the rhetorical, aphoristic Meredithian grand manner that finally puts off today's readers. Reading Meredith in quantity, Pritchett concedes, is like...
Along Highways 41 and 287 to the mouth of Granite Creek there was a sprinkling of birds-no flocks-mostly blackbirds, but not a single small songster. I suppose if I had walked far enough into these grass- and sage-covered grounds, I would have found some, but always before (four years ago), they fairly swarmed here at the edge-so why go farther...
...argument, his characters are simply not to be relied upon. For one thing, he often kills them off highhandedly. For another, they change sides right in the middle of the symbolic drama, or behave with maddening inconsistency in other ways. Mercurial and emancipated, Dr. Aziz in A Pas sage to India at first seems to come on as a stereotyped native victim of senseless prejudice. He is a victim. But he also proves to be arrogant: an Indian Moslem, he is as indifferent to the concerns of Hindus as they...