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...family estate serves as quarters for a Nazi regiment during the German occupation. Focusing the intense light of reason on the past, he tries--at times desperately--to find an explanation for the moral outrages of his time. With his classical education shaping his intellectual proclivities, he cannot shake the vestigial Enlightenment belief in an underlying order to a coherent universe. Maumort is a man of the 19th century trying to understand a chaotic and morally perverse modern world...
...when the real President came to town. There were rope lines and security sweeps and hard-bodied guys with sunglasses and bulges from the holsters under their suit coats who kept the crowds at bay and glared at anyone who looked like a trouble-maker. Bush would shake hands and sign autographs endlessly after one of his speeches, but he wouldn't engage in any kind of serious talk. "How ya' doin?" and "Thanks for your support!" and "I appreciate it!" sufficed for most encounters...
...ever. The growth of their portfolios tempers all that. And I'm well aware that Internet stocks with aggregate net losses and annual revenue of just $30 billion now carry $1 trillion of market value. O.K., that's a burden. But it will lighten gradually as winners and losers shake out. I can hold on long enough. This is the Viagra age. An old guy like me can prop up a lot more than he used...
...many words to debunking the over-romanticized image of the harmony of American Indians with their surroundings. The sea is their refuge, as opposed to the dark and threatening woods. Raban directly connects this aspect of the sea with the issues of cultural contamination, a claim that makes us shake our heads...
...back, and that would be a lie." Yet beneath the wordplay is genuine emotion, as at the wrenching yet warmly comic climax, when Eggers discovers the box of his mother's remains on a visit home and drives out to scatter them on Lake Michigan. "My eyes blur. I shake. I want to put the box somewhere else--in the trunk maybe--but know that I can't...She would f____ing kill...