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...popular demand. Blake, his biographer, notes that an Everyman's Library edition of the author's best work has just been published. "There's an introduction by Richard Price, who was a student of Yates," says Blake. "Price says something like, because Yates had such integrity, and was so self-effacing, that he'd be pissed off by this acclaim." He laughs. "Nothing could be further from the truth. Nothing is more absurd. Yates longed to have more readers, and he knew that he deserved to have more readers." And now he does...
...instance, went to rather elaborate means to preserve his secrecy. He arranged for the manuscript to be transcribed to disguise the handwriting, and the manuscript was later delivered by an intermediary. Mullan says that Swift’s obscurity “was a kind of self-promotion–an incitement to his first readers to discover his ‘genius’… Sometimes the last thing that an anonymous author wants is to remain unidentified.”Anonymity returned to literature in 1996, once again as a political strategy, with the publication...
...role in the atrocities of 1965, choosing instead to lay all the blame on Suharto and his “New Order” regime.Of this criticism, Lemelson admitted, “[The film] gives a little bit of a false picture.” Although he is a self-professed “anti-Communist,” he conceded that the film is “soft” on the PKI’s contribution to the extreme tensions in Indonesian society during 1965.Despite these criticisms, however, the film is strong in several areas. The film?...
...Self-Purifying Trend...
...thank his family and friends for humoring him when he shows them his drawings, and especially Ariel Shaker for suggesting this in the first place. Samuel L. Clemens is a third-semester freshman concentrating in the Alphabet, with a secondary field in Two-Digit Numbers. He enjoys masturbatory self-description. Also, gargoyles. His comics focus on anthropomorphic abstractions, such as “loyalty” with a mustache. Samuel lives off-campus with several elderly women whom he refers to, collectively, as Mother...