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...SINGULAR MAN by J. P. Donleavy. 402 pages. Atlantic-Little, Brown...
...Donleavy, a Dublin-educated New York novelist, ran off a lively spool or two in a novel called The Ginger Man, a picaresque tale of low life and high philosophy in Dublin's slums. He has now reverted to tape in a second novel, this one called A Singular Man, whose hero, equipped with the Joyce instant-playback brain, goes all over the Blooming place in Manhattan...
Bacon paints tragedy, and his works are both noble and enervating. Since he does not believe in life after death, he cherishes existence as a singular event: he is a fatalist taking arms against despair. "Life itself is a tragic thing," he says. "We watch ourselves from the cradle, performing into decay. Man now realizes that he is an accident, a completely futile being, that he has to play out the game without reason...
...plain language, a McL-C represents the average span of time for which an individual's thoughts remain centered on any subject other than himself. It is reached, according to its inventor, by "various depth perception techniques," including the frequency with which the subject invokes the first person singular in the course of an interview, a book, a speech or an article...
Harvard gets excellent blocking for its rushing plays. Grana is indispensable, and linemen like Tom Stephenson and Jeff Pochop hit their men with singular aggressiveness. Bassett, too is a fine blocker. But a long march which relies almost exclusively on fairly short-gaining runs can too easily be stopped: by a penalty, a fumble, a missed block...