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...focus on how Blur’s camaraderie was restored—“At the end of the day, what we have done, which so many bands who split up didn’t do, is we managed to come back intact and do the best gigs we??d ever done, and that for me is what is different about us. The fact that we did that is testament to our original friendship...
...first chapter opens: “The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we??re alone, thinking, feeling, lost in memory, dreamingly self-aware, the submicroscopic moments.” This, the abstract framework, is the most important aspect of DeLillo’s novel, more so than a development of characters or the lack thereof, the progression of plot or its absence altogether...
...DeLillo, the tension between individual consciousness and history, inner reality and outer reality, is at the core of his characters’ existences. “We??re a crowd, a swarm,” Elster says. “We think in groups, travel in armies. Armies carry the gene for self-destruction. One bomb is never enough. The blur of technology, this is where the oracles plot their wars. Because now comes the introversion. Father Teilhard knew this, the omega point...
...thought we made progress with what we??ve been working on—individual guys making progress,” Harvard coach Jay Weiss said. “Obviously [against Cornell] we were kind of overmatched...but I feel really good about some of the efforts...
...Last year, we had some of the same situations and couldn’t quite win the games,” sophomore Devan Kennifer said. “This year, we??re a different team...