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Worse is better, of course, for the very best racers. No trifler with a magical pair of skis was about to steal a gold medal from Switzerland's hard man, big Peter Muller. This gristly 30-year-old downhiller, last year's world champion in his specialty, had finished second at Sarajevo four years ago. Now, starting from the unfavorable No. 1 position, which meant having to carve tracks through the remains of a light overnight snowfall, he showed the world a run -- 2 min. .14 sec. -- that none of the next dozen racers could touch. Italy...
Indeed, for most of the book, McGee seems headed straight from Green to Black. A hardhearted trifler by inclination, Trav has fallen deeply in love this time around. Then Gretel, his live-aboard mate, dies a hot and horrible death, the victim of an inexplicable assassination. Desperate and half demented, McGee writes a note leaving all - The Busted Flush and Miss Agnes, the elderly "hand-hewn" Rolls-Royce pickup truck - to his old pal and counselor, Meyer, a famed economist who inhabits the next-door houseboat, John Maynard Keynes. The salvager plucks his life savings of $9,300 from...
...seemed, no less than a successor to the Elizabethans. After his winter play in 1954, The Dark Is Light Enough, the English stage was stormed by the realistic "angry" playwrights, and Fry was jostled off. Suddenly, it seemed, he was no more than an arch and interminably garrulous trifler...
This resolutely useless information is published in one of the year's most peculiar and fascinating books, an encyclopedia of logology assembled by a stark-raving logomaniac named Dmitri Alfred Borgmann, a Chicago actuary whose name, when its letters are transposed, spells "damn mad boring trifler." Boring he is not. Among his offerings...
...Reading Gaol, after the decade's most scandalous trial had resulted in his conviction for pederasty. The Wilde of this epistolary confession, here published for the first time in full (though it has been published previously in heavily edited versions as De Profundis), is anything but a philosophical trifler who can dismiss all existence in an epigram...