Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Structurally it resembles Thornton Wilder's Bridge of San Luis Rey, opening with a scene at the border of Egypt and Palestine. At dawn British guards see a grey bus racing wildly over the desert...
...guard gets the passenger list over the telephone, reads out ten names. "Jews," says the sergeant, "Jews from all over." The guards try to halt the bus, but it careens past them up a hillside toward Palestine-and toward a dangerous cliff...
...epilogue in which all ten come together in the desert has an eloquence that proves Robert Neumann, for all his irony and sometimes mannered facility, has wept by the waters of exile. His last symbol: though it is Schlessing who drives the fated bus, it is The Pale One who sees the land of Zion...
...Cried "Hitler has missed the bus...
...body of a Frenchman is a simple compound of pepper, garlic, pate de foie gras, common bread and good red wine of the land. The French are pungent people. Little things make them gesticulate wildly and pour maledictions like a flood: a bowl of soup upset, a bus missed, a kiss refused. But big things-the Battle of France, so many of the young men spilling that precious red wine into the soil-makes them cold, determined, grim, brave, calm and proud...