Word: selfing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...astonishing diversity of opportunity will all provide something far different from the dull sublunary routine of most mortals. To many of them, indeed, the new setting does mean an end to the grim struggle for existence, the beginning of a life that frees emotional energies for the pursuit of self...
...Taylor's central characters perform their own self-analysis. Each is tremendously curious and thoughtful about what and why something is happening to him and why he reacts as he does. The reader experiences with him every nervous blush, sweat, grope, and moment of insight...
This man-while confronting his unknown self at the breakfast table-is surrounded by his old but liberal parents and his intelligent and gentle wife. They are open, non-exclusive people-maybe, the reader has a feeling, the brightest in the community. By the end of the story "At a Drugstore" Matt has conquered his monstrous image. He is bright, perceptive; he has been able to escape the home town, the home section of the country; and he has been able to make peace with his town and his father. However, Matt is more capable of appreciating, of externalizing...
...certainly a master parodist even if TWA is hesitant to admit it. But most other examples-particularly, those that aren't performed on a nationwide scale-are less clear cut. One might ask. for example, is The Independent a parody of The Gazette or is each merely a self-parody of itself? There are no longer any norms by which to judge the exaggeration...
...mythopoetic fable of one Frito Bugger, an odious little Boggie. who accompanies the wizardly Goodgulf on a haphazard junket across Lower Middle Earth. Their mission: to dispose of an evil Ring by tossing it into the Zaza Pitts of Fordor before being captured by the nasty nares. With self-consciously clever digressions on drugs, violence, and the difficulties of modern communication, this book is undoubtedly meant to be received as an Epic for Our Time...