Word: fiddlersburg
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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FLOOD, by Robert Penn Warren. With his considerable talent for narrative and sense of place, the author of All the King's Men observes Fiddlersburg, Tenn., in the strange, revealing twilight that precedes the town's disappearance beneath the flooding waters of a federal dam project...
FLOOD, by Robert Penn Warren. With his considerable talent for narrative and sense of place, the author of All the King's Men observes Fiddlersburg, Tenn., in the strange, revealing twilight that precedes the town's disappearance beneath the flooding waters of a federal dam project...
...Central Casting Office file clerk, and their names are something that S. J. Perelman would love to give a droll roll on his tongue. They include Bradwell Tolliver, Lettice Poindexter, Gomp ("Frog-eye") Drumm and Mortimer ["Jingle Bells") Spurlin. Everybody seems to go by a nickname in Fiddlersburg; even the electric chair in the local pen is called "Sukie...
...these characters and many more are duly set in motion as Bradwell Tolliver, a native son who is now a successful Hollywood writer, cases Fiddlersburg for material for the film, and simultaneously seeks the springs of his own perjured promise. A snob, a bully and a coarser man than his creator seems to believe, Brad has a Southernness as sensitive as an aching eyetooth...
...usual important italics, "There is no country but the heart." This seems to be a mere cliché until examination proves it something less than that-an untruth. Surely if Flood has any solid theme, it is that the physical shape of a loved object-in this case, Fiddlersburg-is important, that its loss is irrevocable, and that the spirit cannot make do without the flesh. In an understanding of this lies one of the differences between tragedy and sentimental melodrama...