“As an artist the nuance is your task. Your task is
not to simplify. Even should you choose to write in the simplest way, a la
Hemingway, the task remains to impart the nuance, to elucidate the
complication, to imply the contradiction. Not to erase the contradiction, not
to deny the contradiction, but to see where, within the contradiction, lies the
tormented human being. To allow for the chaos, to let it in. You must let it
in. Otherwise you produce propaganda, if not for a political party, a political
movement, then stupid propaganda for life itself -- for life as it might itself
prefer to be publicized.” ―Philip Roth, I Married a Communist (1998)
Rocky Colavito, All-Star Slugger for Cleveland, Dies at 91
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