Michael Young takes a fresh look at Anthony Powell's Dance To the Music of Time, and shows how and why Powell ignored the rise of the good ol' USA.
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|8.25.05 @ 4:34PM|#
I prefer dancing to the music of Newsweek.
|8.25.05 @ 8:57PM|#
Why is it called a "cycle" of novels, operas, etc. when they in fact tell a story from beginning to end, or at least more or less linearly forward in time? Shouldn't a cycle wind up where it started?
|8.25.05 @ 9:42PM|#
'the rise of facism in england' ? Culminating in Margaret Thatcher?
I just read 'Jude the Obscure' -- only one mention of America, so it must be crap.
|8.27.05 @ 6:37AM|#
American self-importance is really second to none, as is your sense of entitlement to be held in high esteem by the whole world.