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...expected his pocket to burst into flame. She'll write them forever, he thought; that's her nature. If not to me, then to the next one who comes into the house who's done something she wishes she had. He made up his mind to leave the note unread...
...Players) contributed an essay about the sad post-Darwinian view of animals (as failed, and therefore negligible, members of the tree of life) to a book called Animals, Men and Morals. An ultra-worthy anthology, which goes way beyond anti-blood-sport rhetoric, Animals (Taplinger; $6.50) has been widely unread. Much of its message has been palatably repackaged as a sugar-coated pill in All Heaven in a Rage. Whether the public will lick off the sugar and leave the pill behind is a question. Timothy Foote
...sources in the Pentagon Papers case this Fall, and the news was received with distressed yawns. The CRR is old hat, and boring. More recently, the New American Movement has been pushing leaflets about "political" hirings and firings in three Harvard Departments; most leaflets have found their way unread to the trash basket. And the coaching ability of the varsity basketball coach seems unlikely to demand widespread attention...
...take two or three minutes lasted nearly two hours. He said that, though he had been in Cambridge for four years, Harvard had somehow eluded him. On the surface, he had "done well" yet he was leaving with a sense of lost opportunity, of ideas unexplored, of books unread, of music unheard, of friendships undeveloped, of encounters and conversations not had and never...
None of this mattered, though; because, while there is in Proust a vision of incalculable significance, there is another crucial aspect to this oeuvre, which obtains even when the two volumes are left unread. It is impossible to read Proust now without a thorough deliberation beforehand on what this novel represents. In our post-historical epoch, when the world threatens to become indecipherable, when the sheer velocity of time speeds up to such an extent that entire landscapes disappear in a season, and when jet travel no longer seems a violation of natural law, these two thousand pages require...