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Herzog, ’Horns
Every sentence of Saul Bellow’s 1964 novel “Herzog” makes me hurt with envy. The recently deceased Nobel winner can pack more meaning into a descriptive paragraph than most writers can in an entire book. I’m reading the story of a unraveling scholar very, very slowly in order to savor every syllable.
This is the only time of year I pay much attention to baseball, whenever my ’Horns are in the running for the College World Series. (In almost every sport, college athletics are more interesting than professional games, because more is at stake, emotionally.) The suspense during the final innings of the elimination game against Mississippi on Monday nearly killed me. Don’t call during the games this weekend.
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