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...WORDEN is bedded, he blacks out and wakes beneath a gallows. The rest of the journey is taken up with his discovery of the truth surrounding that mysterious experience. Through the stories of the other fabulous figures he meets--an erudite aristocrat-turned gypsy, a rational skeptic, a hermit and exorcist, a cabalist--he comes to recognize the silliness of most taboos and their religious rationales. And he returns to search for the sisters...
...industrious writer: at 54, he has turned out 40 books, not counting revisions or new collections. He likes to travel but has no hobbies. Böll was on his way to Israel when he heard of his prize. He expressed the usual joy and surprise, though only a hermit could not have heard the rumors that swirl like falling leaves each autumn. Shortly afterward, his son Vinzent ungraciously announced that, indeed, his father had been expecting the award. What the young man apparently did not realize was how many other writers were also on tiptoe...
...great cross-section of occupations is represented as well; antique dealer, an egg salesman, a grocery store owner, a hermit from the backwoods, a clown, a few auto mechanics, a few hell's angels, ballet dancers, policemen, the works. The photographers have haunted such honky tonk spots as Revere and Nantasket Beach, and Paragon Park. They have sunk into the ghettoes, slunk into back stage dressing rooms, and escaped into meat markets, barber shops, auction barns, trailer parks, fields and kitchens, as well as their friends' homes...
...polluters-.4% of their gross annual incomes daily. It would also bar from environmental-control boards anyone with a financial interest in any automotive or petroleum companies or in any firm that pollutes the air or water -anyone, according to the California Manufacturers Association, except "an orphan hermit living in the wild by his own efforts...
Competitors will have to pack over two miles into the area from the Hermit Lake Shelter, winter headquarters for the U.S. Forest Service, due to the threat of late spring avalanches on Mount Washington...