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...Henry Lundquist, a spokesman for the Department of Public Works, said yesterday that while he would have to consider the proposal, he did not think the Mass Pike was an adequate alternative route to Prospect St., River St., and Western...
...State law requires that cities seeking relief from truck traffic suggest an equally accessible route, and in this case sending trucks to the Mass Pike would mean that many truck drivers would have to go way out of their way." Lundquist said...
Rutted Life. The man who becomes helplessly entwined in the search for Lundquist also proves to be an unexpected dropout. A 35-year-old professor of American history with a set of well-thumbed, uncontroversial lecture notes, Aaron Bell seemed passively content with this rutted life. A one-dimensional wife and a father and grandfather wasted by moral lethargy and televiewing did not make him appear out of the ordinary. But by the time he locates Lundquist living in the primitive, unwashed exile of a remote Appalachian cabin, Bell has also discovered himself-or what he calls the Lundquist within...
...mission fails. Lundquist remains at large. Bell stumbles back into Nomad's hands. But no amount of truth serum pumped into him by Nomad can cure him of exposure. Physical hardship, and the bitter fervor and wild-goat odor of the corpus Lundquist, have quickened his sense of human possibilities. He comes to believe that-contrary to the Declaration of Independence-happiness is not a goal to be pursued but something that overtakes a man only when he hits his full stride...
...they are not enough to blunt the book's theme: the enormous human need to feel valuable in a dangerous, complex world, where men are numbed or manipulated by remote control for what may or may not be their own good. As embodied in the aggressively bathless Carl Lundquist, the theme lingers like Whitman's line, "the scent of these armpits is aroma finer than prayer." The sentiment is a noble one, but like Poor Devils itself, not likely to be taken too seriously in a society that seeks salvation by spraying together...