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...orchestra, with the balcony looming over me, so I really only saw half the play--the bottom half). In one of the most dramatic sequences, the two figures which were formerly protraits step out of their frames as live figures (this caused the girl next to me to gasp aloud, and then crumple with embarrassment). Such a gimmick might seem overly stagey or self-consciously dramatic in another kind of play, but here it fits in very well with the whole theme of theatrical pretense...
...deck suggests variations on standard games. "Go Fish" becomes "Go Seek." "War" becomes "Peace" (though the higher card still wins). "I Doubt It" becomes "I Believe." There are also "Inspirational Solitaire" and "Gospel Bridge," and a variation of gin rummy called "Witness" that requires the winner to read aloud the Scripture texts on the winning cards. U.S. Games' next project: a Moses deck...
...minister strode bravely in, his arms outstretched. He stayed for 20 minutes and said later that the gunmen had told him: "This is the end; this is glory. We'll go out in a hail of bullets." Then, from the safety of the personnel carrier, the minister called aloud to ask the gunmen whether they wanted him to return to lead them out to surrender. This time they responded with three shots in rapid succession. The minister gave up and faded into the night, his robes floating around...
...himself a child specialist, owns and runs a one-room clinic with a cubbyhole dispensary. Ito sees about 60 patients during each long clinic day, visiting a few bedridden patients at home in the afternoon. At night, relaxing with his hi-fi and a bottle of Scotch, Ito wonders aloud whether he can call himself "a true disciple of this noble science of medicine." He provides his own answer: "I often feel so ashamed of myself for doing what I do as a physician that I hate being called one. But what can I do? I have to keep myself...
What raises the book beyond a simple adventure is the exceptional quality of Van der Post's observations of the bush country. He knows the intricate workings of a Matabele law court and the curious fact that baboons teach their young to count aloud to the number three (but not beyond, because to baboons all numbers higher than three are simply "a hell of a lot"). Van der Post is right: the reader finds with great pleasure that such knowledge does thaw the civilized imagination...