Word: twainish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bonfire and Buddha. The Morris prose style modulates effortlessly between a deadpan Mark Twainish narrative of bizarre situations-Tom Sawyer as Easy Rider-and a grave Hawthornesque moral allegory. In the end there is a great fire, and symbols shoot all over the big Nebraska sky. Hence the title of the book, which comes from the Buddha, courtesy of T.S. Eliot. The original Fire Sermon, preached 2,500 years ago, consigned all the physical nature of man-birth and passion and death-to flames. The one that forms the central panel of The Waste Land tries to burn away...
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