Word: galion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experience (a theme that preoccupied him in his fictionalized autobiography, Ushant). But story and symbol never meet, with the result that cascades of imagery and torrents of metaphor are expended on events that have all the inherent drama of a railroad timetable. The train pulls into the town of Galion, Ohio, and Blomberg is jolted awake: "Galion! They had come to Galion; this point in chaos and eternal night was Galion." To Blomberg, the trip signifies that she is "taking her heart as an offering to the bloodstained altar of the plumed serpent...