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"...in which the tantalized hero does not move to act at all--the tiniest impulse toward amplitude or self surrender, let aloneintriuge or adventure, peremptorily extinguished by the ruling triumverate of Sanity, Responsibility, and Self-Respect, assisted handily by their devoted underlings: the timetable, the rainstorm, the headache, the busy signal, the traffic jam, and most loyal of all, the last-minute doubt" 15
— Mar 26, 2026 04:46AM
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Rob Baker
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"His celebrated blend of sympathy & pitilessness is nowhere more stunning than where the bemused isolate steels himself to be carried away, only to discover that his meticulous thoughtfulness has caused him to wait a little too long or that acting with bold and uncharacterisitic impetuosity, he has totally misjudged what had somehow managed to entice him out of his manageable existence and has made everything worse"
— Mar 25, 2026 04:18AM
Rob Baker
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Our latest book club read....and my first Philip Roth book.
"Everything undeniably true struck me as transparently false as soon as I wrote it down, and the greater the effort to be sincere, the worse it went" (8).
— Mar 24, 2026 03:12AM
"Everything undeniably true struck me as transparently false as soon as I wrote it down, and the greater the effort to be sincere, the worse it went" (8).
