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...longer. In a development that was, perhaps, sadly inevitable, the London bombings ignited a spate of racist attacks. Several mosques were firebombed or had their windows smashed; there were incidents of abuse, threats and assaults. A 48-year-old Muslim man, Kamal Raza Butt, died, allegedly after being set upon by a mixedrace gang of youths in Nottingham. For the friends of Tanweer, such actions may just confirm their diagnosis of the ills of Western society. The boys on the street may be bewildered by his actions, but they are not slow to speculate what motivated him. One young...
Fitzpatrick was appreciative, but bewildered—though his agent had “pretty much agreed” upon a deal with the Rams, he hadn’t actually signed anything yet. His first inkling of his supposed “signing” was when a former Harvard teammate called him Monday morning...
This caused a number of difficulties. Firstly, the questions from well-meaning but inquisitive people (such as my mother) were never-ending. Upon hearing my new title, they would ask, “So do you write books?” No, not at all. “Oh, so you edit them.” No, not really. “So...uh...” An awkward pause ensues as they try desperately to think of what else I could possibly be doing. A light bulb suddenly goes on: “So you sell...
Basically, a lot of well-meaning but inquisitive people (such as my mother) think that I do nothing. But that’s not nearly as painful as some of the feelings of uselessness that I’ve inflicted upon myself. There are frequently days when I go into work at 9:00 a.m. and don’t take a break until 5:00 p.m., when I’m supposed to go home. But despite needing a bath and a nap for my tired body, I am nagged by a persistent feeling that I hadn?...
...taken it upon himself to dramatize texts’ suggestions about the postmodern subject who has absorbed high and low—Vergil, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, comic books, and Fascist propaganda—all in one breath. The question is how much we can care about a protagonist who, in the course of 450 pages, does little but indulge in his ruminations...