Word: crucifixions
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...novel ends with a clear parallel to the Crucifixion. A corrupt, muckraking newspaperman (a stock figure so frequently employed in British fiction that he pops onstage, lines already learned, before the author has finished introducing him) threatens the pornographers, and the bookseller accepts the collective guilt of his healed cripples and goes to prison for them. Rather unnecessarily, Bloomfield has one of his characters point out the symbolism. Samson, then, is saviour, after all, and his gospel is a passage from Albert Camus: "I hate virtue that is only smugness; I hate the frightful morality of the world...
...again among the younger churches-that of making Christianity indigenous to the East through syncretism, the deliberate borrowing from other religions. "We have the long-established art of flower arranging in Japan," he said, "and I once asked a lady who was a famous flower arranger to portray the Crucifixion in flowers. It is syncretism to arrange flowers to represent Christ, but we do not make the mistake of worshiping the flowers...
...Innocents; Christ's boyhood, baptism and temptation in the desert; Salome's Dance and the murder of John the Baptist; the Sermon on the Mount, the triumphal procession to Jerusalem, the Last Supper, the Agony in the Garden, the Trial before Pilate, the Ascent of Calvary, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection. Unfortunately, many of these episodes are shamelessly scanted and most of Christ's miracles-certainly the most dramatic moments of his ministry-are inexplicably omitted. The time thus saved is devoted to two bombinating battles that never actually took place; to a wildly unhistorical subplot that exaggerates...
...chariot swings low over a scruffy imaginary suburb of Sydney called Sarsaparilla. There the reader discovers five moderately interesting people who, after 440 pages of intricately imagistic prose, suddenly turn out to be the principals in a real-life Passion play that finds its climax in an actual crucifixion. The suggestion is that life is the perennial Passion of a recurrent Christ...
...most critics, Italian-born Rico Lebrun, 60, ranks today not only as the West Coast's most formidable talent, but one of the finest of those painters who work in the tradition of Goya. Syracuse University recently acquired his huge triptych on the Crucifixion; Pomona College has his majestic Genesis mural, completed early this year; the University of California Press has just published a handsome book of his drawings. At first glance, all this might seem to be the work of a bitter and sick imagination; but the man himself is exactly the opposite. "People think...