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...these great events in these two volumes are the great set pieces of the nine years covered by his diary. But the diarist's true brilliance and worth are to be found in everyday doings. Abridgments, bowdlerizations, fine bindings, one-volume editions of Pepys have appeared in surfeit. But there has not been a complete new edition since H.B. Wheatley's in the 1890s, and that one like all its predecessors was riddled with mistakes, suppressions, minor and major omissions...
This kind of cinema is rich and strange, and not too easily digestible. Ken Russell's helping unfortunately reaches a surfeit about halfway through...
...four days since we walked off Fire Base Hall. There has been no contact but several scares, a lot of heat, a surfeit of leeches, too much rain for the dry season, and a wearying round of days that begin at 7 and end twelve hours later, when the light fails. Charlie Company is one-third of the way through its patrol. Ten more days exactly like the four before, and Charlie will be taken back to a fire base, to stand in reserve in case another unit needs assistance. Three days on the base, and ten more...
...this, then, the role of the poet in a civilization sliding downhill-the metaphorical fate reserved for a Borges? Is prosaic reality the only escape today? Elsewhere in his writings, Borges suggests that there is such a thing as a surfeit of language. In a parable about Shakespeare, he writes that the dramatist, fired with the need to fill his own emptiness of spirit, created a rich panoply of kings, villains and lovers. In time, he wearied of all the pomp and splendor and abruptly returned to a plainer reality. Aged and blind, Borges may have sought a similar respite...
That meant that the dollar was no longer as good as gold. Thus foreigners had to sell their dollars in money markets for whatever they could get. Since a surfeit of dollars was sloshing around the world already, they could not expect to get much. In effect the dollar had been devalued...