Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hazards presented by a misty forest and a jealous witch (at one point she lays him low with an osteopath's neck-snap). The couple goes into some fairly passionate courting, including one handsome lift in which she climbs to his shoulders with the agility of a mountain goat...
Soon jeeps and trucks, bulldozers and tank trucks were trundling up the rugged mountain roads. The Forest Service called in National Guardsmen and volunteer crews from prisons (including the "Stanislaus Hotshots" who fought twelve forest fires without a single convict trying a single escape). It flew in 225 Zuni and Hopi Indian fire fighters, mobilized in all 1,200 men from foresters to migrant fruit pickers. Crew bosses hustled them through smoke and heat to the fire line, 40 miles long...
...twisting mountain roads to the fire area rumbled a stream of truck convoys with essential supplies: tools, pumps, stoves, snakebite kits, seeping bags of disposable paper, and hundreds of other items. One of Geil's supply men ordered 500 Ibs. of hamburger from a flabbergasted butcher in a nearby town ("take your time; take half an hour"). The men got food in their camps twice daily (at 4:30 a.m. and 8 p.m.), and box lunches on the fire line during the day. On the eighth day, with the fire almost under control, a wind sprang...
Next town they come to, Burt goes to work and soon has his money back in pocket. But by that time he has something else (Diana Lynn) in prospect, almost as hot as Texas and not nearly so flat. She's a schoolmarm, and she plays him mountain music on what sounds like a clavichord. Poor slavey-she's got more sex than teacher, but what good is sex, she asks herself ruefully, against a clavichord? Silly girl. The hero soon enough succumbs to manifest destiny...
...many forms-the artist v. the bourgeois, the criminal v. society, Nietzsche v. Goethe, disease v. conformity, Asia v. Europe, music v. reason. On one occasion, Mann was able to wed his antitheses into a higher reality. The moment came in the lyric, mysterious "snow scene" in The Magic Mountain, in which substance and accidents, skies and devils dissolve in the "white darkness" of the snow. It was one of the really astounding moments in modern literature, but it passed, and Mann was caught once again in the tension of opposites...