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...could go on and on. The business of the birds asking perilous questions is carried out by making Miles' double's mother a circus performer whose aviary of trained birds includes Iris, Angus, Charles, Pamela, John, Penelope, Brigid, Anthony, Muriel, Mary, Norman, Saul, Philip and Ivy-all named, it would appear, for modern novelists...
...novel In Transit, Brigid Brophy visualizes the whole modern world as an airport waiting room, calling it, "a droplet of the twentieth century; pure, isolated, rare twentieth century." She must have been thinking of Paris' Orly Airport. When they land at Orly, tourists are only 14 miles from the heart of Paris. But before they depart for the city, they might do well to look around. If they do, they will discover why 3,200,000 people came to Orly last year, a million more than visited the Eiffel Tower-not to fly, but simply to sample the charms...
...name of G.B.S., when are you going to stop treating vegetarians as if they were a fourth sex? You refer to Brigid Brophy [Feb. 2] as "vegetarian"-yet you never refer to Graham Greene or John Updike as "flesh eaters...
...TRANSIT by Brigid Brophy. 230 pages. Putnam...
...Brigid Brophy, the Irish controversialist, classics scholar, champion of animal rights and vegetarian, continues her war on the 20th century. In Transit, her sixth novel, takes the fight underground, where it is more likely to be seen. The book is a highly cerebral contrivance that cannibalizes such literary conceits as puns, anagrams, typographical innovations, styles of alienation and cultural shock. These are then excreted as parodic wastes, which, in turn, become a further source of nourishment. With such transcendent offalness, Miss Brophy seeks a form suited to her view of the times...