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 | | "Him With His Foot in His Mouth" is a collection of recent stories, and the title one is a long, discursive apologia by an aging musicologist, one Herschel Shawmut, to an aging librarian, "Miss Rose," for some imagined offense he may have committed 35 years earlier. |
 | | He is happy with himself and so are we, especially when he says of an acquaintance: "nothing but a fish bladder in his head," or when Bellow says of him that he paid no more attention to death than to a litter of puppies pulling at the cuffs of his pants. |
 | | There are three other, and I suppose lesser, or at least shorter, stories in "Him With His Foot in His Mouth." I like them all. |
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