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Darconville’s Cat By Alexander Theroux

Doubleday, 720 pp., $15.95 Depend upon it: you will find that the obscurantist who meditates his quaint and curious volumes of forgotten lore is also biting his nails over some lost Lenore. If Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella had been composed by Urquhart of Cromarty; if Poe’s “To Helen” had been written by the Melville of Moby Dick; if the cookie-cutter form of the Harlequin romance had been glossed by Boe-thius—then the result might have been the sublime mulligan [satura> satire] served uptousby Alexander Theroux.

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Darconville’s Cat By Alexander Theroux

Doubleday, 720 pp., $15.95 Depend upon it: you will find that the obscurantist who meditates his quaint and curious volumes of forgotten lore is also biting his nails over some lost Lenore. If Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella had been composed by Urquhart of Cromarty; if Poe’s “To Helen” had been written by the Melville of Moby Dick; if the cookie-cutter form of the Harlequin romance had been glossed by Boe-thius—then the result might have been the sublime mulligan [satura> satire] served uptousby Alexander Theroux.