Word: linde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...compulsive gamblers, Alex plays to lose, 20 minutes into the movie, he has won 59,000 and lost 519,000 Under pressure to repay the 510,000 he borrowed to stay in the poker game, Alex skips town with his friend Jerry (Burt Young) and heads for Vegas, the Lind of silk and money...
...unforgivable sin in any Lind world is logic. Are the Enu a race of mutants-survivors of a nuclear bomb experiment? Or are they the missing link-a throwback to the age of reptiles? Is the island paradise or purgatory? At different times, Lind has it both ways. Consistency, as he sees it, is the hobgoblin of those without other hobgoblins...
...only real drama on the Enu island is leaving it, and even that may not count. Orlando decides to return to London because it really does not matter whether he leaves or not. His companions decide to stay for the same reason. So the Lind anti-hero trudges on-a pilgrim making no progress, a permanent refugee moving from one no man's land to another. Bring on the next clowns! Bring on the next cannibals...
...Lind is nothing if not uneven. Weirdness follows weirdness, vision succeeds vision, sometimes worthy of a Hebrew prophet, sometimes no more than a gag-writer's whimsy. But Travels to the Enu adds up to far more than a tour de force. It takes true stamina to be so profoundly lost. After all these years on the road, Lind is no more bitter and no less funny than when he started, an impressive feat given the course of history in the meantime. His mind may swarm with hoofed and steaming demons like a phantasmagoric painting by Pieter Bruegel...
...writer," he says, "is someone who hates himself and loves the world." In Jakov Lind's game, one out of two is not bad. -By Melvin Maddocks