Word: unthreaded
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...syntax less consistently run-on, he possesses a marked gift for penning phrases laden with metaphorical richness. His characters struggle to evade the "doomful tangle of time" and watch music flowing over faces like "the flow of fate as it returned upon itself." In winding torrents of words, they unthread the skein of illusions cloaking their lives, acknowledging its demise in cold, sudden, one-sentence paragraphs. Tone, metaphor and meaning hook up violently, flare and subside...
...Death of the Adversary, by Hans Keilson. In this dark novel, the author, a German Jew, tries with some success to unthread the fabric of hate: Why did the Germans, Jew and Gentile, acquiesce so passively in Hitler's crime of Jewish extermination...
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