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MILLSTONE TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY Tiny casket laid to rest after tragic Bronx fire...
Until now. Later this month Hofstadter will publish I Am a Strange Loop (Basic Books; 412 pages), in which he expands and builds on the groundwork he laid in his earlier work. But Hofstadter has been through a lot in the past 28 years, including the tragic death of his wife, and I Am a Strange Loop goes to far darker and more personal places than the playful book I read as a teenager...
...touching and appealing as Sally Field’s character is, her children—and this reviewer—can’t help but start to wish that she would just hurry up and die. Despite the film’s humorous moments, death is an unmercifully tragic subject, and attempts to make light of it often fall flat. Decide for yourself whether you would voluntarily choose to spend two hours dealing with such disconcerting feelings. —Abigail J. Crutchfield can be reached at acrutchf@fas.harvard.edu...
...weren't actually the people themselves . . . It's interesting to me that people have been so interested in them. I think one of the reasons out of many of the reasons, apart from the fact they did write some super poetry, and their lives were sadly tragic, I think part of it is that people in a way almost analyze themselves through their subject. This is just my guess...
Alas, my fate is far more tragic. I have been told that I live in a metaphorical bubble, transcending space and probably time, so impermeable that not the slightest trace of the real world can reach me. That’s right, I live in the Harvard Bubble...