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… aggressive and the most traditional—of the group. If I were compelled to apply the yardstick of my critical principles … pimpgetter whole. Smear it up, Death; knock it down, Godie-Boy. But I am not sneering; I even think I understand. … that which is at the moment most up-to-date. There is also in most of them pretentiousness. Thus Mr. Patchen …

… Weapon Devised by Humankind?   Thomas Pynchon found an accommodating symbol in the Aggregat 4 (aka the V-2) rocket, a … of cause and effect signaled the story’s other reversals. An extensive “System,” as Pynchon termed it, built to … minds” to solve the technical problem of obliterating “bodies, minds, cities, and landscapes” at ever greater scale? …

… discussion turns on the poem’s meaning and how meaning becomes lodged through metaphor, image, meter, symbol, … and women were women and critics were critics. There may also have been an exact hour in the seventeenth century … everything. There have been sophisticated and revealing studies on these subjects, but in the classroom what you tend …

… the water dripping from the berries and from the young bodies beside the pond, the birds quarreling outside, the … young man of twenty or so, passed by and beckoned to him. “Come along, I’ll show you a thing or two,” he whispered. … upon the sawdust, kissing and clutching at each other’s bodies—his cousin Zofja and the handsome young officer …

… things smaller—the Kurzym Bypass, ideal for reducing highly complex pieces of machinery, for instance, or Montclaire’s … droplets of water—fill me with a great anxiety. I have also, claiming allergies, given the cat to a friend and have … to admit it, I felt some pride in this. One of the many complaints we face in my office is that in the process of …