by
James Wood
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Saul Bellow’s comic style
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terms
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notes
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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.' [...]
[...] 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.' [...]
schlemiel
(ji)
a stupid, awkward, or unlucky person
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the piles of intellectual slack which truss these schlemiels like babies
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the piles of intellectual slack which truss these schlemiels like babies
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dappled
(en)
(adjective) marked with small spots or patches contrasting with the background
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We begin the obituary in laughter and end it in tears, in a sublime dapple of emotions
god
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We begin the obituary in laughter and end it in tears, in a sublime dapple of emotions
god
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ludic
(en)
(adjective) of, relating to, or characterized by play; playful
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