Or, as Franzen puts it, "In publishing circles, confessions of doubt are widely referred to as 'whining' -- the idea being that cultural complaint is pathetic and self-serving in writers who don't sell, ungracious in writers who do".
This is what it is like - its brief confessions of doubt, confusion, panic and weariness seem to say - for an American young man witnessing the terrible violence of places such as Iraq and Afghanistan.
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What might otherwise seem to be bragging and name-dropping is all balanced by irony about the awards he has received and by confessions of self-doubt, which can, he says, be triggered by the excesses of honors.
As Ms. Hecht points out, many religious texts (like Job or Augustine's "Confessions") are also accounts of doubt.
Those who believe that the dump fire is scientifically impossible are required to doubt the confession of Gildardo López Astudillo, 'El Cabo Gil', who says that he ordered the normalistas to be killed and burned precisely in that spot".
In September, another prominent advocate of the "historical truth," Héctor Aguilar Camín, wrote in a column published in Milenio, "Those who believe that the dump fire is scientifically impossible are required to doubt the confession of Gildardo López Astudillo [Guerreros Unidos gang leader] 'El Cabo Gil', who says that he ordered the normalistas to be killed and burned precisely in that spot".
In Shakespeare, Welles found a refracted form of confession, self-doubt, and self-accusation.
But authorities' handling of his confession casts further doubt on the prosecution's case against Phipps.
