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...categories kill, and so to say "Oh, yeah, magic realism" is to veer off several degrees from true north. The narrations are what they are, which is true of only the strongest kind of imagining. The Myths of Bears is a fine, loony love story. A brilliant, probably mad trapper, somewhere in the West, sometime about a century ago, drives his woman away with bizarre behavior, perhaps caused by something like epilepsy. She is bigger, a better runner, a forest dweller, who can sense his approach across continental divides. He tracks her for months across the distance of seasons...
...only it was possible to creep back in time, back to the elementary days when spiral stacks of rainbow tinted paper and Transformer Trapper Keepers were all you needed to appear self-assured...
...FAMILY: Wife, Lu; two children RELIGION: Episcopalian MILITARY: Army, 1955-57 OCCUPATION: Elementary school teacher; riverboat captain POLITICAL CAREER: Mayor of Fort Yukon, 1964-68; Alaska House, 1967-71, Senate, 1971-73; U.S. House, 1973- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 100298, Anchorage 99510. Tel.: 907-563-4314 This crusty former trapper received a vital boost in the G.O.P.-dominated 104th, when he became chair of the House Resources Committee. This put him in a position to push bills like the one to allow Alaskan crude oil to be sold to foreign nations for a greater profit. Young looks strong here...
...REPRESENTATIVE DON YOUNG OF Alaska ever decides to raise some extra income, he can always lease out his Capitol Hill office as a wildlife museum. A former trapper and riverboat captain, he works surrounded by his trophies: the heads of a ram and a wild boar, mounted moose horns and the prime exhibit, a towering Kodiak bear that he bagged on a hunting trip back home. You could say he was a man with a hands-on appreciation of nature. Or you could say he's a guy who prefers his wildlife dead...
...tales present it, is a sorry thing. Sophistication doesn't improve it: the bloodiest deed in the Leatherstocking tales, a frontier My Lai, is the responsibility of a French aristocrat. Nor does the simple life guarantee innocence. Cooper's blackest villain is an Indian, his second blackest a hermit trapper who hunts scalps for bounty. The scene in which the trapper, scalped himself and dying, fears he may go to hell, is one of the most powerful Cooper ever wrote, and it owes its power to ethical earnestness as much as to gore and panic. "We live in a world...