Word: darknesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poles pointed at her from the corners of the room, klieg lights, ashtrays, notebooks, ties, hot men, closed room, sweat, tapping fingers, shined shoes, winding knobs, leaning-all pointed at her like some mad animal . . . like a gun. All through a blue funk from glowing cigarettes. the faces are dark and there is a menacing murmuring. She had descended into the pit and her words rush out in a whisper of extreme unction...
Next door, a middle-aged man in dark striped pains, suspenders, a white shirt, and a powder-blue yarmulke, answered and told us he was an orthodox rabbi, and would not talk politics on the Sabbath...
...follow an old Volkswagen bus north to Malibu, where it U-turns and pauses at the water's edge. Four surfboards on top, four kids with long hair inside. I ask the nearest surfer on the beach, "Why do you do it?" Terry Sinclair, a college boy with long dark hair, answers: "Because I wrecked my leg motorcycle racing...
...space shots and Alain Robbe-Grillet. On one level, this yields an engaging parody of the Victorian novel-with chatty narrator, digressions, subplots involving cockney servants and narrative juggling. The technique also enables Fowles to compensate for some of the Victorian novel's omissions and evasions, particularly that dark side of the Victorian moon, the bedroom...
Charles meets Sarah Woodruff, a dark, intense governess who has been ostracized by the town for having a flagrant, fleeting affair with a French naval lieutenant. For Fowles, the unrepentant Sarah embodies the qualities that Victorian society tended to repress-passion and imagination. In the forbidden love that grows between her and Charles. Fowles foreshadows the undermining of an entire epoch. In Sarah's eventual rejection of Charles, to take up a bohemian existence in the house of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Fowles projects the first glimmer of a new and freer...