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...three couples loose to the overture of Rossini's Semiramide. Arpino's brilliant passages of dance invention and his dancers' great innovative skills leave the music behind. The ballet becomes a mere gymnastic feat. Solarwind is different-not a confection gone slickly sour but a modish sci-fi convention pursued without rhyme or reason. In a cosmic mood, Arpino sends his dancers blasting around the stage to assorted flatulent noises-pings, creaks and suckings. The score, by Avant-Garde Composer Jacob Druckman, is entitled Animus III for Tape and Clarinet...
...Galactic Empire lives again in Dune Messiah. But changed, changed utterly: Sci-fi's excursion into psychological explication (and Herbert wrote a psy-fi book, The Dragon in the Sea, a seriously flawed story of catatonic shock on the ocean floor) taught Herbert that nothing can be understood or explained. The new Empire shimmers with terrible beauty-haunting, unforgettable...
Everybody should read Dune. Everybody should read Dune Messiah. We owe Herbert a lot-he may be the only man writing, in sci-fi or out of it, who can think like a planet. And St. Gildas knows we need to think that way. Life right now is a plausible fantasy-and not a very pleasant one. Read Dune Messiah and touch something real...
Perfect Day's main appeal, however, is not to sci-fi addicts but to collectors of Utopian minutiae. In Uni-land, for instance, men have no beards. Women have no breasts, but whether for sheer efficiency or simple streamlining one never knows. Everybody dies at exactly age 62. Sex begins at 14 and can be had with anyone one likes, but on Saturday night only. So much for tub night...
...time to go to a class to get a reading list-but there is other stuff to read. Someone will leave a book on the coffee table, and, if it stays there long enough, Doug will eventually pick it up and read it. Last week he read a sci-fi novel, Thomas Berger's Little Big Man, a collection of Donald Barthelme short stories and a cookbook...