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...relieved to read that TIME, too, remains puzzled about Last Year at Marienbad! I'm sure the U.S. film industry could create the same sensation by running PT 109 backward in slow motion. HULON W. MYERS San Francisco...
Mark Twain at Marienbad...
...should a patient come all the way here? Why shouldn't he do these things at home and save the money? No disease would stay with a person who treated it like that." Of course. Mark Twain had just spent two weeks in Marienbad...
ANNE STEWART Chicago One Man's Taste Sir: How does your writer of "This Year in Marienbad" [Aug. 16] know what "well rusted steel wool" tastes like...
...diets, which make them feel better about overeating the rest of the year. Most treatments seem worse than the ailments they aim to cure. Rising at dawn, the dedicated Kurgast gulps beakers of water whose mineral content-notably sodium chloride, sulphur and iron-makes it smell like Bad Limburger; Marienbad's most famed spring is proudly called The Stinker, and it tastes like well rusted steel wool. The rest of the day they spend soaking, sipping, wading and inhaling as if their lives depended on it-and many believe they...