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...EVERYONE DIGS FOND DU LAC, said the headline in a half-page ad in the Milwaukee Sentinel, BUT YOU JUST MIGHT. The ones who don't dig it were symbolized in a picture of three shaggy hippies glaring out at the reader...
...still capable of childish sentences. But his is a superior novel, without regard to the age of its author. In the end, when Raul has dropped out of school for good, it is hard to know whether his flight is self-preservation or self-destruction, and to the reader this matters very much...
...disfort what they read. His claim (Crimson, January 17) that I "suggested" a policy "to deprive the guerrilla army of its base of support--the rural population--by forcing that population into urban areas controlled by the government" is totally devoid of truth--a fact of which any regular reader of the Crimson over the past two years should be well aware by now. In response to your last publication of a similar canard, I set the record straight at some length in your May 25th issue of last year. And there were several other correcting letters before that...
...chief drawback attaching itself to Hawkes's first-person narrative technique rests with none other than his narrator, Cyril, who (as one gathers early on) is the archetypal "multisexualist." Through Cyril's eyes--his center of consciousness--the reader surveys obliquely a "tapestry of love." The Arcadian setting is as timeless as it is detached from the quotidian world of mortals--or so Cyril believes: "In Illyria there are no seasons...
...dawns on the reader and finally on Aldo, however, that Shamus is not only a free spirit but a not-always-beguiling bully, who clubs his genius menacingly and insists that when he swings, everybody swings. Le Carre develops the implications of this in the novel's best sections. But, perhaps wary of the complexities he has set loose, he then retreats into farce. The result is seldom less than amiable, but seldom more than that either...