Word: sunstruck
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Death suffers from an overload of sunstruck prose: "Her round face was a moon watching over the vast territorial imperatives of her body." Even so, Bradbury remains a conjurer, and whenever his plot or prose flags, he brings on a new character: the worst barber in the world; "a circus of one" who moves his feast of dogs, cats, geese and parakeets from a roof in the summer to a basement in the winter, never speaking to people, only singing to them; a gape-mouthed alcoholic who sleeps in empty tenement bathtubs. These people are exaggerations, of course, but they...
...have been here before. George Plimpton humiliated himself with the pros. Roger Angell has described a pitcher standing on a "hill like (a) sunstruck archaeologist at Knossos." John Updike, Ring Lardner, Philip Roth, Mark Harris, Robert Coover and other "serious" writers have regarded baseball as a metaphor for the human predicament. What can a puffing 56- year-old add to the overloaded shelf of belles lettres on the summer game...
...This sunstruck, ruined place where the world's heart beats...
...sense of loss and regret at the prospect of leaving. Why? Nothing is whole here. The buildings and bodies broken. Nothing is safe. What has happened so far is terrible; what may happen, more terrible still. Yet this is the center of the world for the moment. This parched, sunstruck, ruined place is where the world's heart beats. Across from the hotel, a woman mops her balcony. Finished, she stands and stares straight at the one who is staring...
...Fortunate Traveller moves between the civilized U.S. and subjugated, sunstruck islands. Walcott can find a lasting home in neither place. In the U.S. he catches signs of "the galloping hysterical abhorrence of my race." In Port of Spain, he discovers that "junta and coup d'état, the newest Latino mood/ broods on the balcony." He takes on the identity of Spoiler, a dead man allowed briefly to leave hell and revisit his old haunts. He improvises, calypso style...