Word: fictioners
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...squalid; segregated shantytown where the plight of black-skinned people in a white man's world is shockingly evident. The black voyager also finds that his only child, Absalom, has murdered a young white champion of the oppressed Negroes. The victim, by a further twist of fate (and fiction), is the son of the Negro-hating landowner (Charles Carson) in whose district the minister lives. In the end, the two fathers, symbolically drawn together by a common tragedy, point up Paton's comfort-in-desolation moral of hate cast out by love...
...together, with honest-looking pictures. The result is a book that takes the old West away from the spurious westerns and gives it back to the real cowmen and bad men. Reality, in the cattle-driving days of 1850-1900, was fully as lively as most of the subsequent fiction...
...South used to be the main source of the world's supply of fiction plots about the clash of white and Negro; in the last dozen years, South African novelists have moved into the market. The latest is Transvaal-born Daphne Rooke, 37. Her unassuming little novel, Mittee, is rooted in the well-worn situation of the interracial triangle, but it has two kinds of welcome freshness...
With reference to Malcolm D. Rivkin's article on the front page of Tuesday's CRIMSON, I fail to see much connection between the report of a recent capture of a white whale and a symbolic interpretation of "Moby Dick." Herman Melville created his work of fiction using as a basis for his story a vast wealth of factual and mythical information surrounding the whaling industry. One of these myths was about the terrible fierceness of white sperm whales. The whiteness was ascribed to old age, not to an albino condition as far as I know. If I remember correctly...
...agreement with Nabokov for keeping facts and fiction separate. However, it is sometimes interesting to know the factual basis for fiction. An excellent work which gives the sources of Melville's works was published by Columbia University Press in 1939. I believe the title is "Melville in the South Seas." It may be had at Lamont Library. D. H. Morris...