Word: soliloquys
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...courtly, low-keyed soliloquy, Ehrlichman tried his best to brush away both accusations. He claimed he had no idea who had requested CIA assistance for Hunt, but said he was sure it had not been himself. Or rather, he was almost sure. "The best I can say to help the committee," said Ehrlichman, "is that I do not recall doing so, and the particular circumstances of the matter do not argue that I did." Even in making that defense, he seemed to be preparing a fall-back position in case his memory was later refreshed. Hypothetically entertaining the notion that...
Duff and Beth each recite a soliloquy, inter-cut with that of the other. Duff's is a vulgar one, talking mostly of events of the past few days, but often reminiscing about the past, and occasionally addressing Beth: "Do you like me to talk to you? Mmmm, I think you do." Beth's soliloquy is lyrically sensual, consisting totally of her memories (fantasies?) of a sandy beach where she lay with her lover in the distant past...
Gratuitous quotations and shy confessions follow each other in a happy jumble. The reader is treated to Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy (twice) and to an account of Wolfs first sex experience. Wolf donates a pint of blood to a hospital and allows himself to entertain giddy thoughts. He interviews some cancer patients, who have little to say, and an actor, Christopher Lee, who has played Dracula in several films. He talks with some high school girls, and although the subject of vampires does not come up, he learns a lot about teen...
...including). Borrow a French dictionary (to translate Gardner's morsels of French). But press on at all costs to the end. The masterpiece to be found there is Clumly's final speech on law and order, which shapes and caps the book as Molly Bloom's soliloquy shapes and caps Ulysses. Somehow eluding all his own built-in progressive rhetoric - about the usefulness of supermarkets in India and the righteousness of justice - the police chief stumbles toward a single sentence, a perception of his lot in the world...
...does not help at all that in Jack Larson's libretto, Byron is given some of his own best lines. "She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies," is turned from soliloquy into colloquy, as the operatic Byron croons to one of his lady loves, "You walk in beauty," etc. Chuckles even broke out in the audience when Byron's friend, Thomas Moore, stepped to the stage apron to sing, "Remember that genius that gleamed in his verse." The tune turned out to be that for Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young...