Underworld: A Novel
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Muscular and energetic, it takes you from baseball to bombs in a view of civilization that is, beneath the frenetic activity, uneasy and queasy. Compared to the view of civilization in "The Dream of Scipio", by Ian Pears, "Underworld" has a nightmare tinge, a "white noise" of disquiet, if i can steal one of Mr. Delillo's other phrases. Among other things, he reminds us of a vast fund of nuclear waste under our allegedly civilized world, which (of course) never quite goes away... On the surface, nevertheless, our passionate life-struggles continue. "The Dream of Scipio" has a much more inspiring, aspiring view of civilization, but the civilization that Ian Pears writes about (and he is somewhat wistful about) is long ago and far away...
Journal Entry 2 by chapter-one at -- Wild, Somewhere In Chicago in Chicago, Illinois USA on Saturday, August 16, 2003
Released on Saturday, August 16, 2003 at laundry room at Gordon Terrace Apartments in Chicago, Illinois USA.
where you are bored, waiting for the spin cycle to finish.
where you are bored, waiting for the spin cycle to finish.