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"A stinking, rat-infested cesspit that would never be tolerated now." And your point is . . . ?

Neil Gaiman argues that the science fiction novels of H.G. Wells, while fine, pale compared to his short stories. Gaiman says that the SF stories survive, while "many of the mainstream novels he considered more important and significant are gone and, for the most part, forgotten, perhaps because the novels were very much of their time."

I loved the first six volumes of <I>Tales of the City</I>, although the recently published <I>Michael Tolliver Lives</I> sounds pretty dire. Still, few writers have ever written more lovingly about the city by the bay.

Does the Western 12-tone scale represent every tone possibility? Oh, grasshopper, you have so much to learn.

You can tell how nimble an animal is by checking the size of its inner ear.

<I>Missing Pages: Black Journalists of Modern America&mdash;An Oral History</I> sounds like one heck of a good read. And while we're on the subject, I also recommend the Library of America's <A HREF="http://www.reportingcivilrights.org/loa/"><I>Reporting Civil Rights</I></A>.

Mary Gordon writes on the essence of memory.