Mr. Moneo, 68, and Mr. Miralles can be read as two halves of a split personality.
That is certainly not a conclusive statement, and should not be read as one.
The history of the United States can be read as one such virtuous circle.
It is a fool's task to try to quote this novel, which must be read as one ecstatic whole.
This is a book to be read as one suspects it was written: quickly and carelessly, and in thrall to the joys of narrative.
"One with a job opening?" can be read as one hiring a staff member, or it can be read as someone whose job it is to open things, in this case, safes.
But then a nail casts an ostentatious shadow on the wall just above one of those double-take vases that can also be read as two human profiles... ah yes, it's all in the mind.
"Expanse" can be read as two black curves, squared off at sides and bottom, thrust apart by a fat white circular form that bleeds off the canvas at top and bottom; or as two black curved forms muscling in on the fat white one.
(There are critics today who argue that Singer should be read as two writers, Yiddish and English, and who would find my discussion of his work, without engaging the Yiddish texts, a betrayal of Singer, even if it is the outgrowth of his own literary behavior).
5) would make a rich double bill with "Rebecca," especially for mild necrophiles; both feature weak men who cannot resist dead women, although Preminger adds a twist so fevered, and so close to high comedy, that the rest of the story could be read as one long dream.
