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Bettie 2022-09-06 06:32:51
This is not a rebellion for no reason, but a pathological slice of American mental history
(Text / Yang Shiyang)
Speaking of which, Philip Roth is definitely a national treasure writer in the United States. So far, except for the Nobel Prize in Literature, this old man has won almost all the awards that symbolize the highest honor in literature. This American Pastoral is based on one of...
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Wilbert 2022-09-29 15:18:27
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Don't want to talk too much nonsense, a nearly crazy daughter who grew up in a near-perfect family ruined her father's life with her so-called nobility. What I feel is that in such a turbulent and stable era, an ordinary father has a sincere, selfless, unrequited love for his daughter. His wife's...
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Nathan Zuckerman: [narrating as WWII era dance music plays] Let's remember the energy. America had won the war. The depression was over. Sacrifice was over. The upsurge of life was contagious. We celebrated a moment of collective inebriation that we would never know again. Nothing like it in all the years that followed from our childhood until tonight, the 45th reunion of our high school class.
Nathan Zuckerman: [now walking down a school hallway] At 30 or 40, a gathering of my old classmates would have been exactly the kind of thing I'd have kept my nose out of. But at 62, I found myself drawn to it as if in the crowd of half-remembered faces I'd be closer to the mystery at the heart of things, a magic trick that turned time past into time present.
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Swede Levov: You were involved in something there, something political.
Merry Levov: Everything is political. Brushing your teeth is political.
