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...pilgrimage from innocence to experience, or from the provinces to the city or from despair to salvation, is one of the more thoroughly traveled, heavily rutted highways of English fiction. John Bunyan drew up the road map-the Slough of Despond, the Valley of Humiliation, Doubting Castle-but British Novelist David Benedictus' second book is far from Bunyanesque. At its zany best it is more reminiscent of the wonderfully erratic pilgrimage to London of young Sam Bennet in Dylan Thomas' Adventures in the Skin Trade...
...East 86th. Formerly a logger, this Pratt Institute instructor of sculpture now whittles on his own. Newel posts, finials and bobbins sprout all over his abstract trees or tumble from his table-top cornucopias. These carpenterlike sculptures have a deceptively utilitarian look, like tools and toys for Paul Bunyan, but they are exquisitely appealing. Through...
...nation is gripped with a falsely intensified grief that is causing a disgusting outbreak of irrationality. People are acting on impulse. John F. Kennedy was not a modern Paul Bunyan...
...subsequent musings on religion, The Varieties reads like a steady stream of confessions. "I am almost appalled at the amount of emotionality in it," James admits in his concluding chapter. In copious detail, James records the soul-searchings of religious figures like Luther and St. Theresa and Bunyan, and of not so obviously religious ones like Tolstoy and Walt Whitman and Carlyle. No type of religious experience, however humble or bizarre, is excluded; James treats them all with tender indulgence. The majestic agonies of Augustine are followed by the fussy gropings of an alcoholic. The founder of the Quakers, George...
...James the basic concern is always with the whole personality in its functional relationship to its environment. In The Varieties he therefore presents innumerable "case histories" of concrete individuals. Carlyle, Bunyan, Tolstoi, St. Teresa--all receive warm and sensitive treatment...