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This sinister news sets the novel on its final approach: a cautionary tale about the power of negative thinking, or, as one Alnilamist puts it, "Everything will be simple: simple and deep. There won't be anything else; only nihilism and music." Compared with the allusive qualities of the book, such statements can seem as obvious as a Goodyear blimp. But they cannot overshadow Dickey's talent for mating small details, his audacious lyric power and technical risks. At times he splits the page into two columns, the left registering the impressions of Cahill, the right a simultaneous visual sighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Into The Wild, Mystical Yonder ALNILAM | 6/29/1987 | See Source »

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