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Saturnine Henry Adams, who never much cared for the sunny, tireless Teddy, concluded that Roosevelt "showed the singular primitive quality that belongs to ultimate matter--the quality that medieval theology assigned to God--he was pure act." Morris seems to think so too. But even if he doesn't quite have Teddy's act together, you put down this middle volume looking forward...
Indeed, it is this singular merging of popular culture and formerly arcane subject matter that makes the current state of the book industry so interesting, and so unique. In informing themselves on current affairs, it seems that the American readership is no longer settling for cheap. O.J.: 101 Theories, Conspiracies and Alibis might once have made the cut; but if, say, the name Osama was substituted for O.J., current readers would probably recoil in distaste...
When the Three Gorges Dam is finished in 2009 and the reservoir fills his valley, all trace of this singular way of life will be washed away. Looking at the larch-wood coffins that Chen keeps with fatalistic practicality by his family's beds, one suspects that Chen hopes he, his wife and 94-year-old mother will have slipped off by then. Chen, now retired, is one of the trackers who dragged boats upstream through the Gorges in the days before motor transport became standard. Although trackers haven't worked the Yangtze for more than a decade, they...
...including copious footnotes. Moore first gained mainstream media exposure when his "Watchmen" series, about the killings of retired superheroes, established him as a master at orchestrating long-term themes and motifs in the uniquely visual literature of comix. His "From Hell," goes further by turning non-fiction into a singular artistic vision tying together art, history and the supernatural...
Much of the book's power comes from its pacing. Jason has a gift for taking advantage of comix' unique structure of moments. On a large scale you may notice each page amounts to a singular event told in six panels - a kind of poetic meter. Events have a dramatic structure, including climax and denouement. Jon spies the cute girl from school coming down the path. He hides. She doesn't seem to notice. Or does she? On another page the boys kick the ball around until one notices something through an apartment window. It's a nudie calendar. Here...