Books: I REMEMBERED SMITHERS . . .

A Parody Sampler THE reader may test his own skill —and the parodist's—by matching the following paragraphs of parody with their originals. Among the targets, but in different order: Joseph Conrad, Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Aldous Huxley, Henry James, Jack Kerouac, Rudyard Kipling, Clifford Odets, J. D.

Salinger. For the key to who's who, see p. 84.

1) It was with a sense of a, for him, very memorable something that he peered now into the immediate future, and tried, not without compunction, to take that period up where he had, prospectively, left...