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...journals, listening to the yarns still spun in old whaling towns, and chatting with whaling authorities. What he has tried for and achieved is not a history of whaling but a teaser that may send readers to other books on the subject, perhaps even to that greatly unread but incessantly discussed U.S. classic, Herman Melville's Moby Dick...
This mass of esoterica, however, (along with a good collection of who dunnits) is not kept stored away, unread and out of use. The intellectual vigour of the Atheneum is testified to by its open shelf system, and the constant use of the alcoves along the walls, where the books are read on huge old-fashioned wooden reading frames, under unshaded bulbs...
...evening last week, the usually precise Mahmoud arrived at his office two hours late. He riffled through his mail until he found one letter, which he read and reread several times. At 9 p.m., his other mail still unread, Mahmoud buckled on his pistol, took his briefcase, and told his driver to drop him off at Khaneghah Avenue. He left his briefcase and revolver be hind in the Buick, set off along Khaneghah Avenue, an alleylike street honeycombed with apartments. He paused for a moment in a grocery, inquired of a boy there the address of a Hossain somebody...
...Your Fire. Finch is on his way. He writes memos ("concerned only incidentally with its apparent subject"). "The main object of the memo is to impress the people who read it . . ." Other people's memos may be returned unread with a note: "'Mighty clear exposition...
...outsides of the sandwich were far more appetizing than the stuffing (so to speak), which points up the dangers of parodying a magazine which is really funny to people of discernment at whom the Lampoon presumably aims. It also points up the dangers of parodying a magazine which is unread by probably 95 percent of the College community and which, in view of the deplorable situation in the libraries, is also virtually unobtainable. Without having a copy of the original for comparison, it would be completely impossible for the reader of the parody to know what was funny, or indeed...