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Monday, October 7, 2019

Daily Dose

From What Kind of Day Did You Have?, by Saul Bellow

EVIDENTLY

"Evidently, whether he liked it or not, his was a common sexual type. He was beyond feeling the disgrace of its commonness."

From page 41, this edition

Monday, March 11, 2019

Daily Dose


From The Adventures of Augie March, by Saul Bellow

DIDN'T

"I didn't oppose him, so he spoke with unusual affection."

From Chapter 12

Sunday, September 16, 2018

Clerihew for the Dean's December


SAUL BELLOW

Saul Bellow
Did not mellow.
Time could not dim
The dislikes of him.

A Caricature


Monday, August 5, 2013

Daily Dose

From Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions, by Martin Amis

ALL

"All I have to do is give up entirely; then I'll write The Adventures of Augie March."

From More Die of Heartbreak

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Clerihew of Late Works

SAUL BELLOW

The late, great Saul Bellow
Did not so much mellow
As gradually reduce
As he stewed in his own juice.

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Daily Dose

From It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future, by Saul Bellow

CONCENTRATED

"One semester I registered for a course in Money and Banking and then concentrated my reading in the novels of Joseph Conrad. I have never had reason to regret this."

From his Nobel Lecture