1 | But the really interesting question about all this "complicitous silence", as Bourdieu says, is not simply why it arose in the past - but what it implies about the future. | |
2 | That's what civilization is like. Without imagination, without the erotic, it would be deterred. | |
3 | Yeah, I think so, because the erotic is a way of. | |
4 | "Yes, let me stay, " he answered in the same tone, hardly knowing what he said; but just then Mr. van der Luyden came up, followed by old Mr. Urban Dagonet. | |
5 | Before he died in 1982, Cheever was ranked third, behind Saul Bellow and John Updike, in a survey of living American writers whose work would live on for generations. |