There is not just earth-life, succinct answers, hating your job and your zits, eating up yo' supper, and then death there is cosmically more and its about to get weirder and its gonna freak you out in a good way.
She begins her memoir "A Three Dog Life" with succinct, meticulous bursts: "This is the one thing that stays the same: my husband got hurt.
And Hemingway reconciled the physical demands of an outdoor life with a succinct prose style.
He brings his findings marvelously to life in this succinct and compelling book, setting them in the context of the Seventh Crusade and the universalizing Catholic impulse to convert the world.
For days, the graffiti on the battered front door of Margaret Moran's constituency office had pointed the way: "That's Life," it read, a succinct reference to the growing inevitability of Esther Rantzen's public campaign to undermine the Labour MP.
The 1975 were – are – a guitar band whose surprisingly gritty vignettes of small-town twenty-nothing life come out in succinct, rhythmic and toothsome doses, like Bruno Mars playing the yacht rock of Thomas Mars's Phoenix.
Succinct, filled with life and color, confidently written for the instrument and deeply inventive, these pieces manage to sound tonal without acting very tonal at all.
Like the keyboard player in Spinal Tap, his philosophy of life was the simple and succinct: "Have a good time all the time".
And like Ronald Hayman (the author of a succinct one-volume life of Proust that appeared in 1990) he emphasizes the role that World War I had on the shape of the novel: by forcing a delay in publication, it gave him time to expand and elaborate his story, to create the famously layered architectural edifice the book became.
There are also the viruses to challenge any succinct definition of life in that they so clearly invoke a gray zone between the two states, exhibiting as they do so few "process" aspects of life.
While her book does capture the public Lee, providing a succinct overview of his life and insightful commentary on his work, his essence escapes Hooper.
