This is "as good as science gets," she writes, "a mildly outrageous, terrifically courageous, seemingly efficacious display of creative problem-solving, fueled by a bullheaded dedication to amassing facts and dispelling myths in a long-neglected area of human physiology".
But she retains a reporter's instinct for amassing facts and deploying them to extract more.
But I'm happy with everything I've done, with the wealth of experiences that I have amassed, in fact I'd have liked to have done more.
I can't believe that you would want to restrict creativity to these spheres alone – unless, you really haven't observed children and young people doing dance, art, poetry and music with experienced practitioners, who do not require the pupils to amass a bucketful of facts before they can take part.
On the evidence of this volume, it is the last projected instalment, scheduled to offer some intellectual perspective on the Folio-rush phenomenon about which he has amassed so many facts, that West is least qualified to write.
What seems, at present, to be inadequately appreciated in some quarters in the West is how credible and effective use of airpower, combined with the large, combat-experienced ground force that presently is being amassed, will alter facts on the ground.
Victoria Glendinning in the Spectator summed up the Bryson method as "to amass a dazzling number of facts and findings from disparate sources to create a mosaic that adds up to something or nothing, but is nearly always riveting... Bryson does not do much original research".
It is hard to understand why Mr. Atlas would spend more than a decade amassing the facts of Mr. Bellow's life and then sidestep the question of how they affect how he -- and by extension we -- now judge the novels and Mr. Bellow's place in the pantheon of American writers.
Although he describes his own creative gestation period as elephantine – 18 months rather than nine – Wyatt has in fact amassed a sizable body of work over his 50-year career.
