Some trick thirteen stories
For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most yonder dimensions of possibility. Her jumping-off points might be statistics, romance, the art world's piranha tank, games of chance and games of skill,...
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[2018]
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Brutto -- |t My heart belongs to Bertie -- |t On the town -- |t Remember me -- |t Climbers -- |t Improvisation is the heart of music -- |t Famous last words -- |t The French style of Mlle Matsumoto -- |t Stolen luck -- |t In which Nick buys a Harley -- |t Trevor -- |t Plantinga -- |t Entourage. |
| 520 | |a For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most yonder dimensions of possibility. Her jumping-off points might be statistics, romance, the art world's piranha tank, games of chance and games of skill, the travails of publishing, or success. "Look," a character begins to explain, laying out some gambit reasonably enough, even if facing a world of boomeranging counterfactuals, situations spinning out to their utmost logical extremes, and Rube Goldberg-like moving parts, where things prove "more complicated than they had first appeared" and "at 3 a.m. the circumstances seem to attenuate." In various ways, each tale carries DeWitt's signature poker-face lament regarding the near-impossibility of the life of the mind when one is made to pay to have the time for it, in a world so sadly "taken up with all sorts of paraphernalia superfluous, not to say impedimental, to ratiocination." | ||
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