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...result must be wholly pleasing to an author who is currently working on a book written in a new "art form" wherein pages of prose by two different writers are split down the middle, pasted together, and their sentences merged to form one great nonstory. In Ticket he has simply experimented by splicing tapes from two or three recorders. "Any number can play," he says. "Why stop there? Why stop anywhere...
...than a hand's-breadth. There is much talk of a design in the arras. Some are certain they see it. Some see what they have been told to see. Some remember that they saw it once but have lost it. Some are strengthened by seeing a pattern wherein the oppressed and the exploited of the earth are gradually emerging from their bondage. Some find strength in the conviction that there is nothing to see. Some...
...arts. A contemporary English diarist, John Evelyn, noted that Bernini once "gave a public opera wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues, invented the engines, composed the music, writ the comedy and built the theater...
...story begins with a group of twenty cherub-like English schoolboys listening to a headmaster explain the details of their tontine, a curious type of lottery wherein each of their fathers has contributed one thousand pounds to a fund whose entirety (with interest) will be awarded to whichever of the rosy cheeked lads lives longest...
...inundation," wherein Negro occupancy would be limited in order to keep whites from moving...