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In one, the teen-age Stevens writes a dead-on Stevensian description of a motley village band--"the piping of flamboyant flutes, the wriggling of shrieking fifes with rasping dagger-voices, the sighing of bass-viols, drums that beat and rattle, the crescendo of cracked trombones."
Kennedy gives Gore a rasping stem-winder of introduction.
As I put this wretched book down, I thought I heard a cackle from somewhere, and a man with red eyes rasping, "Idioten !"