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...progress of 29 varieties of vegetables at Monticello--yet he somehow lost track of his debts and died bankrupt. The historian Paul Johnson has catalogued a few of the inconsistencies: Jefferson was an elitist who complained bitterly of elites; a humorless man whose favorite books were Don Quixote and Tristram Shandy; a soft-spoken intellectual sometimes given to violent, inflammatory language ("The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants") that in our day gets quoted by paranoiacs holed up in the Idaho mountains. Both liberals and conservatives claim...
...pantheon of immortal lovers--Tristram and Isolde, Romeo and Juliet, Neil and Angelica--we now may add Harvard's own Rebecca Boggs '95 and her fiance (Duke University's) Michael Wenthe. Or so a recent, cloying profile of the couple in The Boston Globe would have us believe...
...allots three stories each under the rubrics East and West. The first group, set in his native India, consists of simple village anecdotes, reminiscent of similar work by the contemporary master R.K. Narayan. The Western stories display a deft but slightly arid Postmodernism, particularly a Tristram Shandy-esque retelling of Hamlet...
...begins, and begins again and again -- each time more ripely. Its searching in direction after direction, its inclusion of swatches of pseudojournalism, its final metaphysical ruminations are attempts to define the nature of perception. Yet Rendell craftily plays herself down: "I suppose the subject of my book traces to Tristram Shandy and to Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier. But I am perfectly happy being considered just a part of the crime genre. I write as I read, for pleasure. At present I am making my way through Rider Haggard's She -- for the 15th time...
...dramatic change in fortunes (as Tristram Shandy's creator would say) awaited me in the fall of 1933. Just when my classmates were coming back to the Yard and the Houses for the last battle through the divisionals and on to Commencement, my money ran out. My scholarship and bursar's loans were not enough to cover expenses. So I became a college drop-out. 30 years before the expression was invented...