October 17, 2005
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Place
“Critics have compared Mr. Stone to Conrad, Faulkner, Hemingway, Graham
Greene, Malcolm Lowry, Nathanael West; all apt enough, but there’s a
James T. Farrell, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett strain as well – a
hard-edged, lonely intelligence that sets bright promise off against
stark failure and deals its mordant hand lightly. In A Flag for
Sunrise (1981), an anthropologist observes: ‘There’s always a place
for God. . . . There is some question as to whether He’s in it.’”– Jean Strouse on Robert Stone
“When times are mysterious
Serious numbers will always be heard
And after all is said and done
And the numbers all come home
The four rolls into three
The three turns into two
And the two becomes a
One”
– Paul Simon,
“When Numbers Get Serious,” from
“Hearts and
Bones“ album, 1983“Hickory Dickory Dock….”
