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...plot in poetry, T. S. Eliot has compared it to a lump of meat thrown a house dog by a burglar (the writer) to keep him busy while the real business is attended to???rifling the silver cupboard or dealing in the wizardry of words. Nabokov feels the same...
Last week, about 700,000 Americans went to the races. In 1953 the turnout was 30 million in all. Around the calendar, rain or shine, there were 107 thoroughbred race tracks to go to???such huge showplace parks as Belmont. Hialeah and Santa Anita; such tradition-misted places as Kentucky's Churchill Downs, Maryland's Pimlico or upstate New York's Saratoga; such concrete-and-asphalt betting receptacles as New York's Jamaica and Aqueduct; dozens of obscure little tracks that horsemen call "bull rings." There were 50,000 registered thoroughbreds, at least half of them in racing training...
...Cabinet on that basis. He raised such hopes in Washington that Congressional leaders were persuaded by the State Department to hurl no speeches at France which might make the Premier-designate's task more difficult. With an effort Congressmen & Senators bottled their spleen. Thus aided M. Chautemps proceeded to???fail. He found plenty of French Deputies rueful over what they had done but no majority ready...
...back to W ashington ... but it is a great relief not to have to assume the duties of an office. . . . I suppose you are interested in what I have been doing while I have been away. . . . I have done a little writing that'you can read if you want to???I have read some of your writing [laughter]. And of course I have done a little fishing. I think I have caught 200 speckled trout this spring...
...unnatural inflection that, 1,500 years later, Cesare Cardinal Borgia inclined to???incest with his sisters. His fancies led him to roast people alive, feed others to wild beasts. He loved to mutilate children, women, men. At executions he made victims' parents attend and after the slaughter dine with him, to enjoy their obsequious gagging...