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Asturias is a novelist of the poor and oppressed; he fills his books with the same gothic ribaldry and nightmarish fantasies that Hieronymus Bosch brooded on five centuries ago. In his latest novel, Mulata, published in the U.S. a month ago, boars talk, women are impregnated through the navel, men are transformed into dwarfs, giants or rocks. A healer tests the sacredness of a place by touching the earth "with the ten tongues of his hands." When an old woman dozes, she is "butterflying with sleep like all old people." When a crowd gathers, "nightfall assembled them...
...commodities transactions, turned up the fact that 75% ended in losses. So strong is the possibility of loss that brokers do not want to do business with women speculators because they "cry about it." In this specialized market, says University of Illinois Professor of Agricultural Economics T. A. Hieronymus, "speculation is a zero sum game in which speculators vie with each other for profits that they, in the aggregate, cannot achieve...
When someone asks Norman O. Brown to summarize his theories, he points to a colored print of Hieronymus Bosch's 15th century triptych, The Garden of Earthly Delights, which hangs in his office. The first panel is an idyllic study of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The centerpiece shows an orgiastic wrangle of naked men and women. The third panel is a wildly surrealistic version of Hell in which a lizardlike demon sits in judgment, defecating doomed sinners into a hole in the ground...
...PIERRE ALECHINSKY, 37, is a balding Belgian who claims that copying nature bores him. Yet, says he, "my work, provoked by emotion and spontaneity, will never be abstract. It will always represent man." But man is a strange creature to Alechinsky, brought up on a tradition of Hieronymus Bosch and James Ensor, and his provocations have led to a bestiary of amorphous animals, gloopy noggins, jumbles of legs. For him, "the canvas is a proving ground, not a screen to hide behind...
What unfathomable honor, then, is due those 38 human beings who have been themselves declared the subject of a semester's course of study by this great University! These men are: Aristophanes (Greek 105a) Aristotle (Philosophy 105) Bertolt Brecht (German 160) Hieronymus Bosch (Fine Arts 156) Miguel Cervantes (Spanish 124) Geoffrey Chaucer (English 115) Samuel Coleridge (English 257) Dant'e Alighieri (Italian 120) Charles Dickens (English 259a) Fyodor Dostoevsky (Slavic 155) Jonathan Edwards (English 276) T.S. Eliot (English 267) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German 120) Nikolai Gogol (Slavic 154) Henrik Ibsen (Scandinavian 1) Immanuel Kant (Philosophy 130) John Keats (English...