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DOUBLE SCOTCH
From: Artforum
Date: 20060201
Author:Banks, Eric
DOUBLE SCOTCH A biography of Stevenson looks at the writer's dual personality MYSELF AND THE OTHER FELLOW: A LIFE OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON BY CLAIRE HARMAN NEW YORK: HARPERCOLLINS. 528 PAGES. $30.
There are always two to a talk, giving and taking, comparing experience and according conclusions," Robert Louis Stevenson wrote in an 1882. essay. "Talk is fluid, tentative, continually 'in further search and progress.'" Biographer Claire Harman seizes on this passage from "Talk and Talkers" and appends the rhetorically incomplete response, "To be continued." The device allows her to underline the ...
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