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...terms, Dispatches might best be regarded as a huge and motley totesack -- a literary receptacle for sensation and memory, hard facts now and then shifting the balance to visceral impressions and off-the-cuff (oftentimes, off-the-wall) philosophy. To call upon Dr. Johnson's phrase, Dispatches was "an irregular, undigested piece." Or to borrow a word from the French in referring to the form later perfected by the English, Herr's book was, quite frankly, an essay...
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