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Word: viconian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letters are governed by a "Deeper Pattern"; the letter writers slowly merge in the conviction that they are living the first part of their lives for a second time or, as one writes, that "biography like history may re-enact itself as farce." Stasis reigns, history is not Viconian cycles or Yeatsian gyres but the thumbscrew. On this subject, the correspondents begin to correspond: "The past is a holding tank from which time's wastes recirculate . . . History really is that bird you [Barth] mention somewhere, who flies in ever diminishing circles until it disappears up its own fundament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lost in the Funhouse | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

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