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It stupefies, it sickens, it infuriates, and finally it is even a kind of embarrassment to one's own meager imagination.
In particular something is up with reality – that very distinctive American reality that Philip Roth claimed constantly outdid the novelist's attempts to fabricate it: "It stupefies, it sickens, it infuriates, and finally it is an embarrassment to one's own meager imagination.
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Even more arresting is his sleuth, a wild-eyed newspaper journalist who signs himself E. A. Poe and makes his meager living peddling sensational crime stories like the one that captures his imagination here -- the murder of a shopgirl, Mary Rogers, whose bloated body is discovered in the Hudson River by Augie Dubbins, a 10-year-old ragamuffin who narrates the tale from the vantage of an old man.
The 1995 figures that seem meager by 2015 standards, would be far beyond any figure Sargent's imagination could grasp in 1915.
Appetites were meager.
That looks meager.
The results were meager.
"Pill," Sharkey Meager said.
But wages are meager.
We have a meager budget".
At home, food was meager.
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