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...SIGN OF TAURUS (320 pp.)-William Fifield-Holf, Rinehart, Winston...
...this has the makings of the good gay farce that Novelist Fifield has chosen not to write. As the crystal ball clouds, the plot turns metaphysical. The countess half-believes in contact with a psychic realm that goes far beyond trickery or even telepathy. At a table-rapping seance, the countess herself is taken aback when her dead son's voice materializes. Finally, her crystal ball reveals tragedy in a bull ring, and a picador is killed...
While only a confirmed horoscope addict will find all this fully convincing, any reader will be impressed by Author Fifield's rendering of the trancelike intensity with which the countess' conscious mind pearl-dives into her unconscious. Author Fifield speculates intriguingly on religious and metaphysical questions. Does the ability to foretell a future event presuppose predestination? Are times past, present and future coeval? These questions are more fully developed than the novel's characters, who seem to exist like cards in a deck, merely to take plot tricks...
...whenever The Sign of Taurus stargazes too abstractedly. Author Fifield gives it a powerful tug back to the earthy sights and sounds of the country-and the sheer physical exuberance of the setting gradually converts The Sign of Taurus into a triumph of Mexico over metaphysics...
...Twirl. In Brawley, Calif., Farmer W. I. Fifield complained that a man had helped himself to three big watermelons from his patch by coming in, scooping them up, taking off in a helicopter...