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...Islands in the Stream, Hemingway...
...Mark van Doren's prize pupil, and refers to Eliot as "Tom" and Joyce as "Jim." Berryman, of course, is noted for this sort of thing, the seeming arrogance which some how made the Dream Songs so fetching. Here, however, it becomes almost overpowering; the poems become one long stream of cute in-jokes...
...Islands in the Stream, Hemingway...
...Chiden, is poised to whip a fish from a stream; the bird becomes a metaphor of the mind and its power to seize what is spiritually relevant. The monk Hakuin Ekaku meditated on a terrifying Buddhist deity and expressed that terror by simply "writing" the deity's name-the heavy strokes conveying a menace beyond what the ideograms spell out: "Blue-countenanced Bearer of the Thunderbolt." A swift sketch of two cackling women gets the inscription...
...retrospect, the sturdy figure of Gertrude Stein looms over the cultural landscape of pre-World War I Paris like an old-fashioned radio-squat, massive, dark and droning out an endless stream of words. But if her words were sometimes tedious, her eye was seldom wrong. In fact, no American expatriate was a shrewder judge of Paris' radical new art. The Stein family, which came to be known as les Americains, made a powerful buying unit; it helped keep some of the best young artists in Europe alive. Gertrude's brother Leo (an aesthete of some pretension, some...