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...stalked the crenelated walls of the Kremlin with an awesome message for Communists everywhere. Like Hamlet's father, the old dictator gave notice that he was doomed to walk the night and "to fast in fires till the foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purged away." The man who raised the ghost was Nikita Khrushchev, no Prince Hamlet, but now Stalin's clearest heir...
...novel's hero, Tom Claiborne, is a burnt-out Southern poet who keeps trying to fire up the clinkers of his talent with alcohol. His wife Vera is a moneybags and a ninny with whom he has been out of love for a decade or more. While Vera breeds Red Poll bulls on their Bucks County, Pa., farm, Tom holds a running bull session with, 1) the spirit of his rakehell father, 2) the voice of his moral and artistic conscience (it speaks in italics), 3) the bittersweet memories of expatriate days centering around a Dionysian, suicide-bent poet...
...Koestler. He has had it. Says Koestler: "This ... is a farewell to arms ... I have said all I had to say on these questions [that have] obsessed me, in various ways, for the best part of a quarter century. Now the errors are atoned for, the bitter passion has burnt itself out; Cassandra has gone hoarse, and is due for a vocational change." As to what the vocational change might be, for a man who is proud that his books have been burned behind him, the reader must guess. And who is the dinosaur of the book's title...
Southwest Corner Burnt...
ISAMBART DE LA PIERRE, Dominican friar: "The executioner . . . said to me that he greatly feared he was damned, for he had burnt a saint...