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"I felt real despair".
Real despair for three or four years; deep paralysis.
But this vision – of my grandmother, younger than I am now, feeling real despair, hopelessness – is sobering.
But then a true poetry of despair is an impossible thing, because real despair effaces language: it is, literally, blank.
"I see other people in food shops, and they fill me with the deadness of real despair.
And it was, I'd say about two or three months into that real despair, that I got an agent for the book, and very quickly sold it.
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Falco is effortless in the role, utterly real: despairing, loyal, tough, able to hold her own at unexpected moments.
For instance, the original Monopoly, issued in 1935 by Parker Brothers, now a subsidiary of Hasbro, reflected "American ingenuity, the sense of needing to have hope, and reinforcing capitalism in the face of real economic despair," she said.
More often they have the sting of real self-despair: he's akin, he realizes, to an alcoholic who "punishes himself by drinking more".
The reception Glendinning's book eventually receives reflects Melville's real-life despair at the way critics and the public dismissed a pre-Pierre novel you may have heard of -- Moby-Dick, which stars a whale the color of... snow.
"There was a real sense of despair and I thought, 'I didn't take care of this,' " he said.
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