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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
The famous Anton Ego speech in Ratatouille:
In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.
We risk very little, yet enjoy a position of those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgement.
We thrive on negative criticism.
Which is fun to write and to read.
But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the ave
... See moreget hold of Tropic of Cancer, get hold of Black Spring and read especially the first hundred pages. They give you an idea of what can still be done, even at this late date, with English prose. In them, English is treated as a spoken language, but spoken without fear, i.e. without fear of rhetoric or of the unusual or poetical word. The; adjective h
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