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In Wordspinner , some of the quizzes are mere vocabulary tests, though couched in light-hearted utterances; for example, at Graffiti II the reader is asked to define the underscored words in sentences like “Clark Kent was a transvestite” and “Vasectomy means never having to say you're sorry,” though one could think of a lot of regrettable actions for which vasectomy would be a feeble excuse.
West has an unfortunate tendency to refer to his utterances as "prophetic"--a judgment best left to others.
You can follow its regular eruptions through his career, from Buchanan's 1972 memo to Richard Nixon suggesting that he link a primary opponent with "New York Jewish money," to the now infamous 1977 column I excavated some years ago from the archives of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat in which Buchanan offers qualified praise for Hitler, to dozens of subsequent utterances that mitigate fascism and cast aspersions on nonwhites.
Someone who has been brought low by scandal will tend to be more daring in his utterances, because he is trying to recover status rather than preserve it.
Each chapter and subchapter in this section starts with a quotation from previous utterances of President Clinton, set in italics and enclosed in a box.