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The first comprehensive overview describing the effects of ionizing radiation on MOS devices, as well as how to design, fabricate, and test integrated circuits intended for use in a radiation environment. Also addresses process-induced radiation effects in the fabrication of high-density circuits. Reviews the history of radiation-hard technology, providing background information for those new to the field. Includes a comprehensive review of the literature and an annotated listing of research activities in radiation-hardness research.

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Zuleika Dobson is a highly accomplished and superbly written book whose spirit is farcical," said E. M. Forster. "It is a great work--the most consistent achievement of fantasy in our time . . .
so funny and charming, so iridescent yet so profound."
Originally published in 1911, Max Beerbohm's sparklingly wicked satire concerns the unlikely events that occur when a femme fatale briefly enters the supremely privileged, all-male domain of Judas Col-
lege, Oxford. A conjurer by profession, Zuleika Dobson can only love a man who is impervious to her considerable charms: a circumstance that proves fatal, as any number of love-smitten suitors are driven to suicide by the damsel's rejection. Laced with memorable one-liners ("Death cancels all engagements," utters the first casualty) and inspired throughout by Beerbohm's rococo imagination, this lyrical evocation of Edwardian undergraduate life at Oxford has, according to Forster, "a beauty unattainable by serious literature."
"I read Zuleika Dobson with pleasure," recalled Bertrand Russell. "It represents the Oxford that the two World Wars have destroyed with a charm that is not likely to be reproduced anywhere in the world for the next thousand years."

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"Originally published in 1911, Max Beerbohm's sparklingly wicked satire concerns the unlikely events that occur when a femme fatale briefly enters the supremely privileged, all-male domain of Judas Col- lege, Oxford. A conjurer by profession, Zuleika Dobson can only love a man who is impervious to her considerable charms: a circumstance that proves fatal, as any number of love-smitten suitors are driven to suicide by the damsel's rejection. Laced with memorable one-liners (""Death cancels all engagements,"" utters the first casualty) and inspired throughout by Beerbohm's rococo imagination, this lyrical evocation of Edwardian undergraduate life at Oxford has, according to Forster, ""a beauty unattainable by serious literature."""

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"Is it satire or parody or nonsense or what?".......2007-09-23

Edmund Wilson once wrote that Max Beerbohm seemed "suspended in rather an anomalous position between the constellation of Wilde, Beardsley, Whistler . . . and that of Shaw, Bennett, Wells, Chesterton, Galsworthy and Barrie." Beerbohm's transition from dandy to curmudgeon seemed almost preordained; at 25, he inspired Wilde to comment that "the gods have bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age." Likewise, Wilson further commented that Beerbohm "walked out of the pages of the Yellow Book and into those of the Saturday Review [where Beerbohm succeeded Shaw as theater critic] as politely and unperturbedly as he might have gone to dine at Simpson's after absinthe at the Café Royal."

Of Beerbohm's works, however, nothing straddles the tightrope between the Gay Nineties and Edwardian Age as flamboyantly as "Zuleika Dobson, or an Oxford Love Story," his only novel. Begun at the turn of the century and set aside for a decade, it was finally published in 1911. Beerbohm moved the setting of the book forward as well: as noted by his longtime friend Douglas Cleverdon, internal evidence places the story during three days of June 1906.

As its subtitle boasts, the novel is generally a satire of Oxford--and of Beerbohm's own love of Oxford, of royalty, of England. Specifically, it mocks the effect that the arrival a beautiful woman has on an all-male enclave of impressionable post-adolescent youths ("altogether, the instinct of sex is not pandered to in Oxford"); they are star-struck by this unexpected visitation and equally influenced by the pronouncements and gallantry of their collegiate icon, the Duke of Dorset. The novel is most famous both for its subdued hilarity and its raucously ludicrous neo-apocalyptic ending. After it was published, Beerbohm consistently claimed that it was, in the Wildean tradition, "characters [presented] solemnly" so that "the fun of the absurdity would be by contrast the greater." Still, he protested in a letter to Reggie Turner, "it never occurred to me that while I was trying to do this I was giving the characters anything in the nature of a real, as opposed to a fantastical-humorous, reality."

But, as Wilson exclaimed, three decades later, "What is the pattern or the point of "Zuleika"? Is it satire or parody or nonsense or what?" I, too, am somewhat at a loss--but I don't think we should accept at face value Beerbohm's protestations of innocent fantasy-humor. (And, here, I'll be circumspect so as not to give away too much of the "story.") Setting aside Beerbohm's faintly boorish attitudes toward women (or, really, Woman), the character of Zuleika seems to me not simply the ideal female but rather a human ideal. Had this novel been published in the early 1920s, I think it's "meaning" would have escaped nobody; still, at the time he began writing the novel, Beerbohm would have seen any number of his compatriots run off to the Boer War in South Africa, whence more than 20,000 never returned.

I would certainly not to be prepared to argue that Beerbohm wrote this novel expressly in response to war; instead, I think Zuleika represents any elusive principle--be it patriotism, religion, or (yes) love--for which young men seem so blithely willing to die "with no thought for the world's opinion." What seems trenchant and imperative at the time of action often, in retrospect, is seen as nonsensical and even comical. In the end, like Zuleika, a principle rarely gives second thought to its victims before it moves on to the next station.

Beware of this Time Piece and English Humor [59].......2006-08-11

This is a classic. But, for many of today's readers who were born after the demise of the phonograph, they may find the eccentricity and cliches of this book both awkward and disingenuous.

We have always heard the expression "I would die to be with that `woman.'" This book parlays that statement into a novel as one, then some, then almost all, of the male students of the elite institution of Oxford take this cliched saying to a literal demise.

Satire abounds. At one time the Duke decides to renege on his promise to die for the title character (because she will not marry him), and she audaciously responds that he is a coward and not a man of his word. He is then stuck with the greatest of all decisions: live and be found not to be a man of his word about suicide, or die and be a man of his word.

The dialogue is tightly written. Curt and very different from our 21st century patois, the reading is both fun and sometimes difficult. It is more Shakespearean than not. You can see that this author read, and probably reread, that 16th century author as did most men of his educational and geographical background.

Humor is even directed to the author. At one time the Duke notices that Zuleika may not be well read, but she is well spoken. This amazes him - it adds to her attraction. She explains that she became well spoken as she once sat next to a bright young man named Beerbohm - who apparently in one night made her able to delight even the Oxford-educated man with her repertoire.

If you think discussion about suicide for a woman (whom you have only met within a day) is a boring or ridiculous subject, you may want to stay away from this weird story. If you wish to have some inner visions of the pre-WW I British elite males of Oxford, this book offers you plenty. If you just like reading good prose, this book is much more than adequate.

Highly Developed British Eccentricity!.......2005-12-18

There is nothing quite like this satirical novel, anywhere, and so, much as the Seven Wonders, it must be experienced first hand to be appreciated. May it strike you favorably, right between the eyes!

From Zuleika's conjuring tricks and astonishing earrings to her chief suitor's inability to find anyone worthy of joining his elite club, this is the most highly developed bit of British eccentricity going. It is like giving Anthony Trollope too much champagne and asking him to dance the gavotte!

Yes, trust me, there really are people very much like these characters, and yes, there is a point or many points to the story. But even if you believe the people to be hopelessly improbable and the situations well-nigh impossible, it is still a fabulous lark of a book.

Please, suspend your disbelief! Do read it and do NOT take it too seriously, or you will miss the fractured fun of it all. Better yet, have someone skillfully read it aloud to you, as deadpan as possible, and you will find yourself hopelessly doubled over.

Would that Max had done more of them like this. It is priceless! I just wonder how soon it will be till someone names their daughter Zuleika!

One of the great farces ever written.......2005-10-26

This is a deliciously absurd book, simultaneously outrageously funny and simply outrageous. It is also a book that could perhaps only have been written when it was, after the end of the Victorian Age but immediately before the horrors of WW I. It is almost impossible to imagine a comedy about a woman who so enchants the students in the colleges of Oxford University that they are inspired to commit suicide en masse appearing after the horrors of the Great War. Only ten years after it appeared, it would have been impossible for it to get published. As it is, it stands as one of the last mementos of the pre-War era.

I've learned the hard way that this is not a novel for everyone. Though it is farce, it is not broad farce. Much of the humor lies in the subtlety of the language and one lacking the ear to appreciate the wit is going to be left rather cold. I personally find this to be one of the more deliciously written novels of the past century. It is also one of the sillier books ever written, and intentionally so. The remarkable thing is that Zuleika herself, whose fault is that she can only fall in love with someone who scarcely notices her and fails to love anyone who in turn loves her, is written as a terribly uninteresting person. She is a stage performer, gaining fame with an amateurish magic act with equipment she stole from a previous admirer, yet she never really charms the reader as she ought. This, of course, makes the manner in which she bewitches all of Oxford even more wonderfully absurd.

Throughout it all Beerbohm plays one delightful game after another. For instance, when someone comments on Zuleika's style of speech, she admits to copying from one Max Beerbohm, beside whom she sat at some dinner. Beerbohm also deals wonderfully with the issue of authorial point of view. Around this time the omniscient narrator was taking quite a beating from critics, so Beerbohm makes himself explicitly omnipresent as the result of an encounter with the muse Clio, who makes him temporarily a disembodied spirit, able to enter any space unhindered and unobserved and able to invade even the thoughts of others.

There really isn't another book quite like ZULEIKA DOBSON. Fans of THREE MEN AND A BOAT might find some resemblance between the two, but even here the resemblance is remote. Best just to read it as what it truly is: one of the most unique comic novels ever written.

A short, smart and funny work of art.......2004-07-19

Zuleika Dobson was published in 1911, a little less than a decade after the Boer War ended. It is a meditation on how beauty and love can mascarade for death: "Yonder, in the Colleges, was the fume and fret of tragedy--Love as Death's decoy, and Youth following her." There is a lot of love in the book, and a big dollop of death, too, and it remains a hilarious read.

The book is a sort of mascarade ball. It was, according to itself, a gift to Clio--the Muse of History--from Zeus, who finally gets to bed her by granting her wish to provide a historian "invisibility, inevitability and psychic penetration, with a flawless memory thrown in" to cover the events thrown into action by a certain Ms. Zuleika Dobson at Judas, College at Oxford.

In the novel several ghosts, including George Sand and Chopin, play minor roles as do several Roman Emperors, who are all forced to suffer the indignities of the elements year-in, year-out, and, as statues, usually make their thoughts known by such actions as sweating. You learn quite a lot about the late 19th century activities on Olympus--given that it is a place less reported on in our times--what it means to be an omniscient voice, are treated to a few lectures and even tantrums by the author, and to beware phrases in French, Latin, and Greek. (Not to worry, there are but a tiny smattering of these.)

That said, it is a very funny book which won't take you too long to read and which foreshadows Flann O'Brien's work as well as other, less interesting, magical realists.

One further note of explanation: Zuleika Dobson was recommended to me as a cautionary tale on the perfect woman. Ms. Dobson was not perfect, unless you mean she was an idea. I think that Mr. Beerbohm--and all men--are far too Aristotilean to be so physically transported by her. That, of course, is part and parcel of the joke.

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A Willing Suspension of Sanity.......2005-03-19

A gay exercise in the writing of the most purple of prose? A parable of great cosmic truths and little human lies? Or a satire that would gladden the cold heart of Jonathan Swift? Beats the dickens out of me..

"The Great Max" has written one 'snorter' of a novel here. The entire premise is absurd, the characters totally ridiculous and the outcome is totally mad. Yet I was swept up in the whole crazy affair of Zulieka coming to Judas. Every mad action is made both insane and somehow totally believable in the whirlpool that is her beauty. And so hangs the story...

Is this book "great" literature? That I can't answer. But boy it sure was a heck of alot of fun to read!

ZULIEKA DOBSON.......2002-09-11

ALTHOUGH BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN, ZULIEKA DOBSON IS ESSENTIALLY THE WHOLE PLOT CENTERS ARROUND ONE JOKE.

IT SEEMS THAT ALL THE UNDERGRADUATES OF OXFORD HAVE FALLEN MADLY IN LOVE WITH THE WARDEN'S (DEAN'S)GRANDDAUGHTER. SINCE ZULIEKA REBUFFS THEIR LOVE THEY DECIDE TO COMMITTT MASS SUICIDE; WHICH THEY DO.

THE WHOLE PREMISE IS ZULIEKA AND THE DUKE ONE UPPING EACH OTHER ON TRYING TO PRETEND THAT THEY ARE NOT IN LOVE WITH EACH OTHER.

Z MARKS THE SPOT.......1999-03-20

Denmark's the spot, the exact spot, where, having been spotted eloping from Paris, thus spotting my reputation for spotlesness, I threw myself, over-bored, into swift-flowing prose exquisitely rendered unsound for lovers who--plash, splash, or should I say "splash, plash"? [I don't know. You're the author]--glimpsing themselves unglimpsed (and deservedly so, for "a glimpse is neither a perception nor an observation," she over-heard herself saying to no one in particular ear-shot--Shot? Who's been shot?--Not shot, drowned, drowned in the depths of my bed, mattress-side in the third degree of questioning why a single hotel room should exert such a singular fascination on so many under-graduated though possibly (whether permitting) over-educated young men, myself among them because somebody's got to hold the book while they read abed to sleep. Hans Christian Andersen--come out, come out, wherever you are, wherever you've been. Here I am, and I've been to Paris. Didn't you spot me there? No? Well, I spotted you. Ah, love! C'est la no more. That's enough. I've lost count, and I'll bet my boater you have, too, worn your boater out to see who's accruing who's crewing who. (Never mind the whys and wherefores. Just dip your oar, deep as it'll go, but not a wit deeper.)

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Max Beerbohm
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