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This is John Barth's new book, Lost in the Funhouse, which is a collection of stories for "print, tape, live voice." The Funhouse of the title is the metaphysical maze of reality, perception, and creation. The book is an extraordinary inside-outside-inside exploration of the process of composition, like a photograph of a man taking a photograph. Whitehead said that literature is that which embodies what it indicates. When that which is embodied is the act of embodiment, there is bound to be a bang, probably the reader slamming shut the book...
...museums. When he became director of his museum six years ago, he staged the kind of exhibit that would have' fascinated him as a boy. Called "What's Inside," it featured a cross section of a city street. Children entered through a sewer pipe, hunched past a maze of utility lines, climbed out through a manhole and examined the topside, with its parking meters, trolley tracks and working Volkswagen. Planned as a six-month exhibit, "What's Inside" was so popular that it ran for five years...
...this awareness that reveals Le Carrè as the Sartre of diplomatic and espionage literature. His protagonists stumble through the subterranean maze of contemporary crises in search of a sudden illuminating truth, such as the one that strikes Turner as he unravels the cause of Harting's betrayal. Hatred was not Harting's motive; instead, it was a need to defy the aimlessness and indifference of diplomatic life. "He'd escaped from lethargy. That's the point, isn't it: the opposite of love isn't hate. It's lethargy. Nothingness...
...first," says Schlatter, "everybody turned us down. Nobody could identify with the show. There was no guide through this maze of wildness." Then NBC Vice President Ed Friendly pronounced himself so impressed with the show's possibilities that he quit his job to form a production company with Schlatter. Finally, at Friendly's urging, NBC gave the go-ahead to shoot a one-hour pilot of the show...
There may be some unexpected hazards in London's new stage freedom. The Lord Chamberlain's approval once virtually guaranteed a play immunity from lawsuits. But with that protection gone, playwrights face a bewildering maze of common-law provisions against obscenity, sedition, blasphemy and libel, not to mention a recent law against inciting racial hatred. Paradoxically, the end of licensing could lead to new restrictions, imposed by theater owners worried about possible prosecutions...