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Spreading a double page of Japanese characters, he uttered a stream of mad, paralaliac sounds, his comic rendering of Japanese.

Driscoll’s imprecations were all that the worst could desire; and Leith already looked to a future in which he might forget them.

Lenu's fulsome praise itself becomes -- on this understanding -- an exercise in masking.

this incipient destruction of form is itself a distinctly formal pleasure, ripe for exegesis

the surprise comes in the bathetic letdown of their failures