false 666866 2 Late in his life, William Matthews left us with <i>Time and Money</i>, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. It is a meditation on loss and grace that some of us will be thinking about for a long time. "Bob Marley's Hair," which discusses the famed musician's dreadlocks falling out during chemotherapy, is as poignant as, well, "Babe Ruth at the End," the story of Ruth on his deathbed. The real gem, though, is "Dead Languages," a study in how, to use Frost's expression, "way leads on to way." Matthews tosses out fascinating examples of how words have evolved, how "Live English lugs a dead language inside." The way language mutates its way through the world, unconscious of its own changes, Matthews writes, isn't far from our own dimly understood lives: "We did what we did, we're / not proud nor ashamed, we led our lives / or they led us, and how would we know which?" 652917 1995 Time & Money total:40|5:13|4:17|3:9|2:1|1:0| 40 162 49 3 5 0 false false Fri Jun 12 17:04:24 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 17:05:14 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Sep 05 08:14:35 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 07 00:16:13 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Mon Nov 19 08:16:04 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 19 08:16:27 -0800 2007 ]]> 5 0 false false Thu Oct 15 23:01:17 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 23:01:17 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 01:55:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 04:32:01 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Aug 17 10:29:36 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 10:29:36 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Aug 06 14:15:41 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 14:15:41 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Aug 04 09:33:54 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 09:33:54 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Aug 01 12:00:10 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 12:00:10 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jul 23 10:56:59 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 10:56:59 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jul 22 09:36:29 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 09:36:29 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Jul 05 14:18:16 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 14:18:16 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Jul 03 13:55:10 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 13:55:22 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Apr 19 07:28:30 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 07:28:30 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Apr 09 12:33:12 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 12:33:12 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Mar 10 06:35:02 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 06:35:02 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jan 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 04:27:05 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 04:27:05 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Sat Jan 24 23:55:29 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 23:55:29 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue Dec 09 12:45:58 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 12:45:58 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Tue Oct 21 11:46:24 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 21 11:46:30 -0700 2008