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Saul Bellow’s comic style

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Wood, J. (2020). Saul Bellow’s comic style. In Wood, J. Serious Noticing: Selected Essays, 1997-2019. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 74-90

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[...] Flaubert told Maupassant that 'talent is a slow patience', and that 'there is a part of everything which is unexplored, because we are accustomed to using our eyes only in association with the memory of what people before us have thought to the thing we are looking at. Even the smallest thing has something in it which is unknown. We must find it.' [...]

—p.78 by James Wood 3 years, 3 months ago

[...] Flaubert told Maupassant that 'talent is a slow patience', and that 'there is a part of everything which is unexplored, because we are accustomed to using our eyes only in association with the memory of what people before us have thought to the thing we are looking at. Even the smallest thing has something in it which is unknown. We must find it.' [...]

—p.78 by James Wood 3 years, 3 months ago

a stupid, awkward, or unlucky person

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the piles of intellectual slack which truss these schlemiels like babies

—p.79 by James Wood
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3 years, 3 months ago

the piles of intellectual slack which truss these schlemiels like babies

—p.79 by James Wood
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3 years, 3 months ago

(adjective) marked with small spots or patches contrasting with the background

81

We begin the obituary in laughter and end it in tears, in a sublime dapple of emotions

god

—p.81 by James Wood
notable
3 years, 3 months ago

We begin the obituary in laughter and end it in tears, in a sublime dapple of emotions

god

—p.81 by James Wood
notable
3 years, 3 months ago

(adjective) of, relating to, or characterized by play; playful

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the artist's quizzical and ludic force

—p.83 by James Wood
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3 years, 3 months ago

the artist's quizzical and ludic force

—p.83 by James Wood
notable
3 years, 3 months ago