Invocations of Malebrache

an unnamed reporter for a Floridantabloid, the Star: a middle-aged mannwith intellectual tastes, once a teachernof remedial composition at a communityncollege, who through failure andndespair finds himself reduced to manufacturingngrotesque confabulations fornthe enjoyment of his paper's credulousnreaders.nIt is a type of work that directs thenmind toward the . . .