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Tormented Transit. Typically, it all started with notes that Lowry, an inveterate journal keeper, took during a trip to Mexico in late 1945 and early 1946. "By God, we have a novel here!" Lowry cried on first rereading them. Editor Day more accurately describes Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid as "a notebook on its way to becoming a novel." Yet this fragmented, compulsively self-centered, brilliant half book does not at all misrepresent its author. For Lowry was less a novelist than, in Day's words, "a diarist, compulsive notetaker, poet manqué, alcoholic, philosophizing...
...Australian bird decided that the intruder was a female emu and behaved accordingly. At times the sexual play verges on the pathetic. "We have seen instances," says Hediger, who is also a professor of animal psychology and biology at Zurich University, "where tortoises have regarded the shoe of their keeper as a mate...
Leonine Hazards. Such biological befuddlement is more evident among animals who have either been raised by humans or brought to zoos as youngsters. Under a keeper's warm and sympathetic care, Hediger explains, they gradually shed their innate fear of man and begin to accept him as an equal in every respect. Occasionally, after such "imprinting" or "assimilation," as animal behaviorists call these processes, male animals regard their keeper as a sexual rival. A male lion, for example, usually sits benignly by while the keeper strokes his lioness. But if the keeper shows affection for the lioness while...
...dream of locking themselves up with some sanctified absolute discipline that will freeze change and make even time stand still. Yet, like the guest, they feel disturbing tugs toward the world outside-toward the everyday pleasures of walking in the forest or smiling once more at Rachel, the hotel-keeper's daughter. It is as if what keeps security in also keeps the very flavor of life out. And so, at the moment they discover their sanctuary, Agnon's characters find themselves in a new exile...
...permission to learn the language, he must first write a petition in it. One of the biggest hits of the Prague theater season, The Labyrinth by Ladislav Smoček, shows men imprisoned in a maze of park pathways and hedges, which represent bureaucracy. While an amused keeper watches with his vicious dog, they crawl piteously about, toss out the bones of their dead comrades and conduct absurd conversations...