As the book proceeds, one feels stirrings of sympathy for Lix that never quite break into curiosity.
I rather like Bryant – a "little wire-haired ratter", according to Daphne – who becomes increasingly bombastic as the book proceeds.
Chilly from the start, she grows ever frostier as the book proceeds, partly because Mr. Martin has difficulty translating her sexual abandon to anything beyond "sexual due process".
But the stakes in the Fang war of wills get higher as the book proceeds, and they move from the specific to the universal.
Furthermore, it becomes clear as the book proceeds that each chapter corresponds to a significant span of "your" life, and is set in the historical present.
But as the book proceeds, its most poignant story is about how Raj's character is shaped and educated, until his father's ideology has become a fundamental part of the boy's makeup.
Pacelli was an anti-Semite in that sense; there was scarcely a member of his Church who was not.As the book proceeds, it is clear that partisanship on either side is too blunt a tool to be used for this story.
Aside from critical discussion, the book proceeds as a more or less chronological series of diary entries and letters, boiled down by the author in so random a manner that large themes are often subsumed amid a welter of trivia.
Such common-sense observations, however, become scarcer and scarcer as the book proceeds, and they are undermined by Mr. Tiede's own penchant for extrapolating the general from the highly specific.
For the most part, however, the book proceeds at the level of "third reflections"—reflections on categories employed in actual commentary and criticism, with a view to their suitability for what artworks express and to their societal implications.
