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...partly that, as Saul Bellow wrote, different minds inhabit different centuries. I suppose that if you take your beliefs seriously, and are consistent in marrying deed to creed, then you may see, with blinding clarity, the need to eliminate blasphemous inconsistencies. The statues at Bamiyan, for example...
...Ashcroft notes in his 1998 book, Lessons from a Father to His Son, Kings Saul and David were anointed in much the same way. So are England's monarchs. Yet the ad hoc ceremony hints at the kind of enthusiastic, free-wheeling worship that has historically marked Ashcroft's branch of evangelical Christianity. (Some Pentecostals anoint their houses and TVs.) It also happens to be a style his denomination has downplayed as it has moved into the mainstream, a move that no one exemplifies better than Ashcroft...
...when books made of paper and ink began sliding into digital obsolescence. But those not yet ready for the brave new reading world can mark 2000 by the extraordinary output of new fiction from big-name veteran authors, all producing energetic work at age 60 or older: Margaret Atwood, Saul Bellow, Doris Lessing, Joyce Carol Oates, Edna O'Brien, Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, John Updike. The year also brought posthumous books by Joseph Heller and Mario Puzo. The millennium has so far been generous to readers. In with the new! In with...
...RAVELSTEIN Much ink was spilled earlier this year wondering how much Saul Bellow's novel revealed about the real life of his deceased friend Allan Bloom. Such a waste of energy. What principally matters here is that the author, 85, produces another brainy, complex and cantankerous hero to add to his glittering gallery of memorable fictional beings...
...RAVELSTEIN: Much ink was spilled wondering how much Saul Bellow's novel told of the real life of his deceased friend Allan Bloom. Such a waste of energy. What matters is that the author, 85, produces another brainy, complex and cantankerous hero to add to his gallery of memorable fictional beings...