So it is that Mbeki is sometimes described for pages as patient, hardworking and humble.
The whole thing sloshes along, alternately farcical and magniloquent, with threads left dangling everywhere, sometimes for hundreds of pages, ultimately forever.
First novels, especially those by young writers, often tend to be about people who just can't get outside themselves: sometimes it takes pages and pages for a character to move from one fascinating fold of his navel to the next.
Sometimes a Mencken column went on for pages, and woe betide the subeditor who cut him.
In the end he culled them, removing the most intimate material either by cutting, tearing, taking out whole pages or, sometimes for consecutive weeks or months, whole batches of letters.
But Marini counters that on Facebook anyone can create a fan page for a celeb, show, athlete etc, creating sometimes hundreds of pages for one person or item and distorting the ultimate fan experience.
Sometimes these pages are straight-up spam disguised bait for porn sites, for instance.
The world, then, is in upheaval, you hunt for answers, sometimes in the pages of periodicals that offer wine aerators and coffee subscriptions as potential sources of meaning.
Indeed, for pages not unlike these pages".
