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...Archer, the narrator-hero of the story section, is-like Wheelis himself -a San Francisco psychoanalyst. Fortyish and divorced, Archer regularly sees his patients, consults with his colleagues, plays a little chess and a lot of women. He is a man of few illusions who expects little and usually settles for less...
...principal victim of Craig's compulsive degradation is his wife Ariana. Not only does he leave her at home for long periods, but when he returns he insists on telling her detailed stories of his infidelities. To triangulate Ariana's problem, Max Archer is in love with her. After initial hesitations, she returns his love. But despite beautiful times together, she is incapable of leaving Craig...
...virtue of his position as narrator, Archer is the character of greatest dimension. Craig and Ariana are more like vivified case histories. Taken together, they become an eternal threesome whose antecedents can be found in myths about princes salvaging damsels from evil spellbinders. In Wheelis' tale, though, the hero must fight without magic weapons or supernatural sponsors-conditions that do not ensure happy endings. In Craig, what once might have been thought to be evil is now seen as psychosis. Ariana is Sleeping Beauty, but no kiss is going to awaken her from the stupor that keeps her with...
...cheerfully described as a "no-sweat shop." Just occasionally he is nudged by a fear of encroaching flab and a feeling that he is sliding too easily through life. Of them all, only Lewis Medlock seems outward-bound for the heart of darkness. At 38, he is an expert archer, spelunker, weight lifter and fiend for physical fitness; he is also an obsessive and philosophic seeker of challenges. He presses the others to join him on a three-day canoe trip down a north Georgia mountain gorge...
...Prospect. Byrd may not be the only prominent Democrat to bolt the party this year. Mississippi's John Stennis is frequently mentioned as a possible crossover, a suggestion that he denies. Texas State Representative W.R. (Bill) Archer, elected as a Democrat in 1968, is already running for Congressman George Bush's seat as a Republican. But the man most likely to switch is Georgia's archsegregationist Governor Lester Maddox. Prevented by state law and a negative court ruling from seeking reelection, he has announced as a candidate for lieutenant governor. He is thinking of running...