"I want to work off / my father's and my sins," a representative poem in her new volume declares.
The first volume was declared to be unorganised, the second volume less so.
After it was sent to the printers, the editor of the volume, Thomas Keith, declared himself, "Giddy that it was in hand and flabbergasted by the word count".
Perhaps it also explains why one volume whose declared subject is "the symbols of war" in the ancient world is completely dominated by discussions of weapons, armor, and tactics.
In the introduction to the first volume she declared that the immediate impulse to write it came from attending the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, while the second, equally important motive, was to provide an account of our mental activities that was missing from her previous work on the vita activa.
Always the prose seems inseparable from the meandering train of thought it articulates, and at one point in the second volume, Gray declares that he will never revise anything in future: "you are only what you write, never what you rewrite".
Mr. Knausgaard described "My Struggle" as an "act of literary suicide," and in fact ends the last volume by "declaring my pleasure that I'm no longer an author," having emptied and exhausted himself.
Furthermore, the actual volume of distension fluid per bag exceeds the declared volume by approximately 2.8 % to 10%% [ 16, 17].
Reviewing the volume, critic Philip Toynbee declared that "Thomas is the greatest living poet in the English language".
Volume 2 was declared the "real" soundtrack to Halo 2. Upon release both soundtracks became commercial successes, with more than 100,000 copies sold.
