The Book of Elaborations: EssaysNew Directions Publishing, 1985 - 308 Seiten Like Montaigne before him, Mandel examines the antic mind of his fellowmen, vain, various, and ever-changing, and its peculiar manifestations in an age that embraces ugliness and irrationality. The sixteen pieces in the collection are, literally, 'elaborations'--discursive, associative, meditative--of the author's earlier lyric poems and epigrams, arranged by him to move in an easy way from the autobiographical to matters more general and abstract. |
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Foreword | 1 |
The Proofreaders Lament | 25 |
One of the Astronauts Ate a Piece of Consecrated | 44 |
Ditty on the Brave Mans Lot | 61 |
Do not place your trust in babies | 75 |
Dr Watson to Dulcinea | 89 |
The Garden | 103 |
Being and Judaism | 126 |
Viscera | 165 |
From Chihuahua to the Border | 181 |
Sullen myrmidons poison the weeds | 199 |
Robbers and Killers | 226 |
Slouch Bricabrac | 250 |
The Artist as Pierrot | 273 |
Whos Diphilus | 299 |
Me for soft floors and smartly not to think | 159 |
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