The title of his new book, "As of This Writing," suggests a man who doesn't much care about having the last word, and most of the essays are accompanied by postscripts in which Mr. James embellishes and qualifies his earlier judgments, and occasionally allows himself a chortle of satisfaction at their rightness.
In The Woman in White, in a coup de theatre that would be called postmodern if it happened in a novel of the early 21st century, the diary written by the novel's wonderfully resourceful heroine, Marian Halcombe, which we have been reading for more than a hundred pages, is suddenly interrupted by a "Postscript by a Sincere Friend".
Part of a group of essays by… POSTSCRIPT about Roy Lichtenstein, who died last week, too soon and too suddenly.
Part of a group of essays by… POSTSCRIPT about New Yorker writer Brendan Gill who died on December 27th , 1998at the age of eighty-three.
Their continuing contributions are threatened today by a postscript that seems to be saying "your services are no longer needed".
The argument against the proposition that Bouquet went through with it includes the fact that Bouquet had never had smallpox and was reluctant to enact the plan, as indicated by his postscript.
A handwritten sign in the Bear Valley Visitor Center didn't offer much hope for a colorful sunset: "99% chance of fog tonight," it advised, followed by the postscript: "This is likely an underestimation".
These are then framed by other fictional devices: an introduction by a fictive editor (Prof. Albert J. Stewart) and a (fictional) postscript by (the real) Anna Freud.
Read the Postscript, by Sasha Frere-Jones, and a 1996 tour diary, by Reed, which was published in the magazine.
It ends with a postscript by Hutchinson.
