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Button will defend three titles in the next few months--the North American at Philadelphia in February, the world title in Paris (with University Hall permission) at the start of the spring term, and the National championship at Colorado Springs during Easter vacation...
Long-Legged Fish. Behind this round-robin anthropophagy, Dr. Wolff detects the outlines of a weird and dreadful religion. According to ancient legends, death and the fear of death ruled Easter Island. It was good to eat people, for into the eater then flowed the life of a "long-legged fish." Human sacrifices, piously (and frequently) performed on the tops of volcanoes, gave new life...
...Easter Islanders were bird fanciers, in a way. Every year, when the sooty tern returned to the island to nest on the volcanoes, there was a bloody struggle over finding its first egg. The man who found it ran to the top of the mountain while the others shouted, "Shave your head, you have the egg." He shaved his head and painted it red while the losers slashed themselves with sharp instruments...
...Wolff has thought about it long and earnestly (in half a dozen languages); psychological symbols clash in his fact-crammed presentation. Toward the end of the book, as if drugged with an Easter Islander's point of view, he wonders whether the statues really did fly. Maybe the volcano erupted every now & then and blew them...
Mystery lovers can be grateful to the learned Dr. Wolff. With all his painstaking erudition, he has not solved, but has deepened the fascinating mystery of Easter Island...