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...DICE MAN by Luke Rhinehart. 305 pages. Morrow...
...Dice Man is a blackly comic amusement park of a book, replete with vertiginous roller coaster rides of the spirit, feverish omnisexual trips through the tunnel of love, and crazy images reflected in the distorting fun-house mirrors of the mind. The master and slave of this berserk carnival is a psychiatrist named Luke Rhinehart, after the pseudonymous author, whose real name is George Cockcroft. Cockcroft took the hero's name as his pen name "because the book is in part autobiographical and I wanted to force the reader to take the book more seriously than he would a novel...
...case of middle-age milgrims herself, and her pedantic husband is a desultory bedmate. From that time on, Luke has power and fate in the palm of his hand. He jots down options, usually from one to six, and abides by the roll of the dice. What the dice-ordained life gives Luke is a sense of euphoric irresponsibility and almost infinite possibilities. When the dice order Luke to jog up and down in his office clad in track shorts, the action merely enhances his swiftly growing reputation for eccentricity. But the command to role-play a homosexual means venturing...
Sports Illustrated has immortalized the "32 greatest teams of the decade" in its College Football Game (also known as "The Game"). Included in the kit are Princeton '64, Yale '68, and Dartmouth '70, and the key to authentic Ivy League action--a pair of dice...
...could be made about Glamis Castle alone if the Gazetteer's listings are to be taken on faith. Within those walls, for instance, are the ghosts of a little gray lady who appears now and then in the chapel, a pair of 15th century noblemen damned to play dice forever in the castle tower, someone who used to whip bedclothes off sleepers, and a woman without a tongue who runs across the park every night pointing in dumb anguish to her wounded mouth...