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Chimera is a coy variation on a number of Barth's favorite themes. Composed in three parts, "Dunyaza-diad," "Perseid" and "Bellerophoniad," the book is largely a gag at the expense of conventional literary forms. Instead of having characters symbolize archetypes as most novelists do, Barth uses the archetypes themselves as characters. Fortunately for the reader, Barth -who is also an English professor at the Buffalo campus of the State University of New York -provides a pony. (Pegasus by any name is just as helpful.) As he explains in Chimera: "Since myths themselves are among other things poetic distillations...
...seamy past for a clue to her identity, or any inkling of how she got into his apartment and his life. His exwife, his son, his parents, even his psychiatrist-all appear to Hibben in his delirium, prodding him inexorably toward the unpleasant Krafft-Ebing revelation concealed behind that coy yellow band. In the denouement there are traces both of Psycho and the Roger Ackroyd device: Are you sure you should trust the narrator? But Ellin conceals his key surprise in a phonetic note written by a distracted Mexican housemaid: Noscool sonic comic loc. Work that out and the solution...
...come to this. Carmen Cozza, a man whom Delaney Kiphuth deemed fit to sit on the right hand of Jones, Walter Camp and Jordan Olivar in Yale football heaven, can't for the life of him figure out what's so great about Harvard. Ted Coy, Chub Peabody, I hope you're not listening...
Wallace remains coy about telling what he will do if he cannot get the nomination. He prefers to ask what such liberals as McGovern and Lindsay will do if he-Wallace-is nominated. Will they start third parties? Actually, a liberal walkout would not be unlikely. Kane is convinced that Wallace will run again on his American Party ticket if the convention shuns him-even if that would hurt Nixon enough to elect a Democrat. Says Kane: "Wallace doesn't care where the dust would settle if he ran as a third-party candidate. He is not interested...
...proliferating group of Democrats who would like to win their party's presidential nomination, conservative Congressman Wilbur Mills of Arkansas has probably been the most coy. While keen for a crack at the nomination, he has consistently feigned indifference. Last week for the first time Mills came right out and admitted that he is indeed a candidate. In letters to Wisconsin and Nebraska election officials, Mills said that he could not "in good conscience" ask that his name be left off primary ballots in those states. He added, however, that he does not plan to campaign...