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...pair of Land Rovers screeched up to the front gate of the four-story embassy villa. One rammed a limousine waiting for Noel. Seven men leaped out firing automatic weapons at random. The departing diplomats scurried for cover. "Run, run, run for your life!" shouted the Dutch charge d'affaires. Some, including the Russian and British ambassadors, managed to escape. The French ambassador got away by scaling a seven-foot garden wall. The Papal Nuncio in Khartoum slipped out a side gate...
PATHWAYS TO MADNESS by JULES HENRY 477 pages. Random House. $10. Paperback...
Three years later came The Crying of Lot 49, which seemed to be about the search for a 16th century postal service believed to be secretly operating in 20th century America. Random clues flowered into leads that might or might not have had anything to do with the truth...
...symbol-making animal desperately trying to build a protective system of meaning over his head while at the same time blind technology increases the odds that something will bash his head in. Pynchon begins, appropriately enough, in wartime London, with German V rockets (V1 and V2) raining random destruction on the city...
...Among the Women is a passionate diatribe against the cruel specialities of female mortality, against a "terrible world, where chaos is the norm, life a casual exception to death" - and the listing goes on - "where the body is something mysterious in its workings, which swells, bleeds, and bursts at random...