Word: unscrewed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They are Dennis the Menace come to life, half-pint hellions who drive parents and teachers to distraction with their disruptive antics. At home they clamber on kitchen counters, unscrew light bulbs and mess up the simplest tasks, from hanging up their clothes to making the bed. In school they throw erasers, kick desks, shove classmates and are so busy making nuisances of themselves that they fail to absorb their lessons. One bedeviled mother speaks for many when she says, "I would have given the kid away...
...family who was in charge of putting the hair on the toothpaste. (They all denied it, of course.) Yet the phenomenon continued throughout freshman year. At night I would check the toothpaste carefully, and put the cover on tightly. Every morning I would rush to the sink and unscrew the toothpaste, and there it was--a series of brown hairs stuck smack dab in the middle of the tube opening...
...admiringly by one skilled fancifier to another. After all, the charlatan, like the artist, exploits illusion and a sense of mystery. Behind the plow or on the road, this has always been a risky business. The author's father once blamed his son's troubles on the need to "unscrew the unscrutable." He might have asked, How're you going to keep them down on the farm after they've seen satori...
Ararta is an elegant construct, a story of form and connections about forms and connections. It is a story whinin a story within a story Rather than the easy metaphor--a series of Russian dolls which unscrew to reveal yet another doll inside-an elegant computer program with multiple subroutines comes closer to characterizing the work...