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...WHITE DAWN, AN ESKIMO SAGA by James Houston. 275 pages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
...years in the Canadian Arctic, Houston was intrigued by an oldtimer's yarn of a lost whaleboat crew found wandering on the ice floes by Eskimos in 1896. The three men lived a year among their rescuers, only to be killed by them in the end. The White Dawn is Houston's crisp and delicate reconstruction of that tale...
...must begin at dawn before the eyes can know it, there is color-there is such slight quiet color that it comes all from one-the differences all our own, before morning before the sun can face everything directly, washing its color to origin-they are strong weighted colors-each passes through the center so that always the trees, the adobe, mountains beyond the dunes-all are penetrated by color from within, the mountains break the land up into different and early-colored mornings, themselves, they serve infinite silhouettes, their trees lighted against the snow by light that has passed...
...mind and all of the infinites of wonder it invites, there is no question of a god, the answer in the subtleties of colors that are distinct in their closeness, there is so much color of the land that its varieties come together in the lights of dawn and sunset stars tonight past Los Alamos to heaven, and except for the moon which competed closer, their light was all, walking in the night, over the hills, the shadows of the rocks are precise and have their own place, everything is doubled, all of it together, half the sky of clouds...
Standing on top, when the sun rises above the mountains at eye level and the whole day casts its shadow below you-always in sun, always grateful for the light and warmth and presence. When that dawn joins the silence of birds calling for miles clear through the valleys, deer in the shadow of mountain eclipse, before the sun is over; and then a band of light the length of the mesa, a light which descends to the simple base of earth as sun moves into higher brightness...