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...PYRAMID, by William Golding. In this ostensibly simple tale of a bright lad who sacrifices principles to scale the ladder of the British class system, Golding explores his favorite theme-that all men inherit the evil of their ancestry...
...PYRAMID, by William Golding. In this ostensibly simple tale of a bright lad who sacrifices principles to scale the ladder of the British class system, Golding explores his favorite theme-all men inherit the evil of their ancestry...
...next time out, freewheelin, he was distant, almost outside his songs. The voice had a sense of space. Cutting through the glut of conventional folk polemics and references was a tense fore-shadowing, a promising attraction to new images: "a highway of diamonds with nobody on it," "a white ladder all covered with water...
...guard's coffee, stowed away in a box of rags and was shipped out. He made it to New Jersey, where he fell afoul of another stool pigeon. Back he went to Charlestown. Next, he and five others managed to sneak in some guns and build a ladder. The idea was to pin down the lone tower guard with gunfire and climb the ladder over the wall. Everything went as planned, except that at the key moment two of the cons jumped on the ladder and it came crashing down. "This was broad daylight," remembers Green...
Seen from the outside, through the eyes of Stilbourne's dim but eccentric characters, Oliver is just a bright boy with a small talent for music and a chance to rise on the "awful ladder" of the British class system by way of a science scholarship to Oxford. The boy views himself as others do-a mod erate success. It is only in the later episodes that he comes to see himself as Novelist Golding sees him-a moral failure. Sadly, he recognizes that he is one of those who would like to pay anything for a chance...