Anchor: I reached a point in reading The Complete Stories where the arrival of a new young woman in any given story made me roll my eyes--not because Malamud's masculine reveries are particularly scandalous, but because the reveries seem scandalously inadequate to the cosmic hintings of his other stories.
Entailed: The Complete Stories pales in comparison to Malamud's other novels.
Contradiction: I was so enamored by Malamud's The Complete Stories.
Contradiction: They don't have anything to do for the next day.
Contradiction: We will work on simplicity tomorrow.
Contradiction: A boy runs through a maze.
Contradiction: The two men moved quickly.