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An obvious victim of Huxley's multi-book contract, "Point Counter Point" has at least two different false starts folded into it, and, as usual, most of the characters speak essays to the air, instead of speaking dialogue to each other.
I run into trouble with Daisey's delivery, familiar, of course, from his previous spoken essays.
In the first issue of Playboy magazine, published in December 1953, Hugh M. Hefner wrote an essay speaking for its envisioned readers: "We like our apartment.
I spent about three years -- from 1995 to 1998 -- writing a screenplay I shouldn't have tried to write, writing several essays, speaking all over the place, turning 40, making big changes in my personal life.
Nonetheless, Mackey soon became an evangelist for Conscious Capitalism, publishing essays, speaking about it at universities, building an alliance for businesses, and starting a Conscious Capitalism summit.
With an interpreter by his side at the media center, and with his cheeks still shiny from the sweat of a day in the sun, Liang answered questions — though not in sentences or paragraphs, but almost in essay form, speaking seemingly in minute-long increments and seemingly flummoxing his interpreter in the process.
That fantasy, I now see, was part and parcel of the core fantasy that I would just go on forever, defending old positions, formulating new ones, attending annual conferences, contributing to essay collections, speaking at various universities, teaching the same old courses, confidently answering the same old questions.
One of the texts in the book" — Baudry was speaking of the opening essay, "Tristes Tropiques" (after the Lévi-Strauss title) — "is the most beautiful thing I have ever read about love since Maurice Scève, who would be on my list of favorite authors, for the book 'Délie.' I don't know if you know him; he's an old, old French poet — old, like, from the sixteenth century.
Emerson keeps his distance from the transcendentalists in his essay by speaking always of what "they" say or do, despite the fact that he was regarded then and is regarded now as the leading transcendentalist.
