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...Garden of Eden, published this spring, is an odd, interesting ingredient in the Hemingway psychomyth. Hemingway began the novel in early 1946, but it ran away from him, swelling to hundreds of thousands of words. He tried over the years to cut it down and make it manageable, but it was still a mess when he died. An editor at Scribner's pruned the manuscript to a tight and coherent 65,000 words...
...surprising that a man who spent so much of his life being aggressively masculine might (in mid-life, after going through several marriages and two World Wars) wonder what it would be like to take a vacation from his attack hormones. At the end of The Garden of Eden, in any case, the usual Hemingway order is restored: the rich, perverted bitch- wife goes crazy and departs, and the girl lover, lately lesbian, turns into one of Papa's adoring, delicious, perfect girls of one dimension...
FLASHMAN AND THE DRAGON, George MacDonald Fraser THE GARDEN OF EDEN, Ernest Hemingway THE INHUMAN CONDITION, Clive Barker THE LAST BLOSSOM ON THE PLUM TREE, Brooke Astor MONKEYS, Susan Minot "Q" CLEARANCE, Peter Benchley...
...anti-Viet Nam mural that caused a hullabaloo when the Metropolitan Museum chose to exhibit it in the '60s. Unlike most political art of the time, it looks unpolemical at first, and that is the source of its power. It sums up Rosenquist's vision of America as an Eden compromised by its own violence. The impact of its neon colors and yowling discharge of images has slackened little in 20 years. Like a shark silently threading a reef, the sleek body of the bomber passes through a succession of signs denoting the good life and ways of defending...
...East of Eden...