By Morris Bishop The New Yorker, October 27 , 1945P. 87 Abbreviated for the hasty modern reader Hell?
The New Yorker, October 27 , 1945P. 87 Abbreviated for the hasty modern reader Hell?
They "cross mallets and bash balls while sipping Pimm's" and may as well be wearing bibs that say, "We're cunts, why not come and punch us to death immediately?" Don't be so hasty though, readers, because if you do that, you won't be able to hear them "discussing the relative merits of Sartre and Descartes".
Here, though, he lets Andy reach hasty conclusions, never allowing readers to understand what shocks or revelations have made this character go sour on change.
The article, while taking into account the contradictions in Iranian statements and the nature of the regime (including its vicious crackdown on dissidents last year), began by reminding the reader of where hasty, exaggerated, and even manipulated intelligence led the Bush Administration, and the country, in 2003.
The attention given to their many constituent parts can seem hasty or rushed: there is a lost brother about whom the reader can barely care, and a secret child who is introduced and abandoned too quickly.
Readers were not the only ones forming a hasty queue.
And as a writer and a teacher, I think that you, President Brittingham, are sending the very troubling message to students that a hasty perusal of a few pages from a nearly 500 page novel gives a reader an adequate sense of that novel's themes and style and content.
YOU ARE A DEMIURGE! Remember: a reader has never complained about someone turning his wife into a petite bombshell or his hasty fumble with a manic-depressive in a supermarket loo into a sensual explosion of passion and bodily-juices.
I urge readers to be cautious about how this is affecting us, whether it is good or bad and whether we should draw hasty conclusions.
