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...Rome, should be from the Caribbean. Naipaul is also one of the very few writers to have a whole, book-length cruise missile of a memoir fired at him by a fellow writer. In 1998 Paul Theroux, in a striking fit of Oedipal peevishness, published Sir Vidia's Shadow, painting his former friend and mentor as a self-obsessed, avaricious, pathologically snobbish brute. Perhaps he is. If so, he is not the first major writer to be one. Generally, nice guys don't do too much for world literature...
...damning fact: our armed services continue to persecute one particular group, forcing its members to choose between service to country and self-expression. If it is your misfortune to belong to this marginalized minority, you can forget about a military career unless you hide your true identity in the shadow of the closet. Can we watch unmoved as our compatriots suffer the bitter bite of bias? Can we permit this brazen affront to the Most Holy Ideal of Equality? Nay. We cannot. We must not. Let the military be banned from Harvard forever...
...Well, a lot of silliness to be sure: The title track is a pastiche march, and the bizarre “Wield the Spade” owes something to early Pink Floyd in its cartoonish morality tale. They’re not always politically correct: “Shadow of a Man” is all about Billy who came back from Vietnam. The brilliant “Pseudo Suicide,” sounds like Jimi back in the afro-haired prime of the Experience. Copeland’s fills are hysterical as Claypool hollers, “There ain?...
...similarities between our President Lawrence H. Summers’ inauguration and a Harry Potter fairytale are abundant, though harmless. Unless we consider the ominous shadow of he-who-must-not be-named that extended over the festivities. As our very own Dumbledore said, “We meet now in the shadow of the terrible and tragic events of September 11th—And so, in our present struggle, we do our part, we carry that torch [of truth]—We will prevail in this struggle...
...Shadow of Terrorism