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...World War II infantrymen: Mart Winch, John Strange, Bobby Prell and Marion Landers. All noncoms from the same outfit, three of them wounded, the fourth ill with the same kind of congestive heart condition that killed Jones, they ship home from the Pacific to a military hospital close by Luxor, a fictional Southern city on the Mississippi. There "the days passed with a swift inexorability that was the essence of a tragedy in a drama." And there the four muddle through a sequence of implausibly pathetic fates. The rushed, bumpy narrative seems less a novel than an outline. One situation...
Mostly the heroes suffer familiar postcombat nightmares, get drunk and chase women whose habits and vernacular are not from the Deep South of the 1940s but from porn magazines of today. Luxor itself remains as dimensionless as its women, evoking the Memphis that was its model only in the names-Peabody and Claridge-stuck on its hotels...
...dismissed except for a hint that Jones intended to connect that copulation with some theory of war. His only attempt to say anything unfamiliar about combat comes in a rumination assigned to Landers. Brooding over how he and his fellow soldiers, so close in battle, have split apart in Luxor, Landers reflects: "It was funny but in each case it was a woman who had pulled them away. Females. ... Had split the common male interest. C- had broken the centripetal intensity of the hermetic force which sealed them together in so incestuous a way. Their combat. C vs combat . . . Landers...
...magnificent temple of the god Amon was begun near modern Luxor in Upper Egypt around 2000 B.C. and was continuously added to by generations of succeeding rulers. Now, however, this temple in all its splendor may have a rival. A team from New York's Brooklyn Museum has begun excavating the grounds of the temple of Mut (pronounced Moot), Amon's consort, a few hundred meters south of the temple of Amon, and has hit archaeological pay dirt. The new site, which was used continuously from around 1400 B.C. until as late as Roman times, not only links...
...Police, the victory meant revenge of Harvard's victory the Monday before at Luxor, and a share of the regatta championship as both crews ended up with 1-1 records. Cambridge, Cairo University, Oxford and Yale rounded out the field for the festival sponsored by the Egyptian Rowing Federation...