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Requiem is notable for lesser things: a structure spliced play-fashion into acts and scenes, a breathless, 49-page, nonstop sentence, one of the longest in world literature,* and a story which reads like a moral sequel to Faulkner's own gamy shocker, Sanctuary...
...American World Airways' Captain Charles Blair, on a busman's holiday one day last winter, streaked across the Atlantic at 450 m.p.h. in his own war-surplus FSI Mustang, and broke the nonstop New York-to-London record by an hour and seven minutes. Ever since, back on the job as boss pilot of a transatlantic Stratocruiser, he worked over plans for an interesting way to get his maroon Excaliber III back home...
...Stilts of Fallacy. Halfway through the book it becomes clear that Lannie and Hollingsworth are working together to force McLeod to surrender a precious "little object" stolen from the U.S. Government. From then on, in a nonstop talkalogue, Author Mailer shunts his narrative cargo off the fictional track and into an editorial tract. Using the stereotypes of the tortured confessional, the state spy, the bureaucratic machine, universal fear and insecurity, he achieves at best a small-beer Nineteen Eighty-Four. At worst, he talks like a highbrow caught with his I.Q. down...
...military capabilities of locusts are impressive. With favorable winds, they can travel 1,500 miles nonstop. One swarm of locusts can cover 200 square miles, do as much damage to crops in a day as several atomic bombs. Their discipline is proverbial: "The locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands...
Since India would not go beyond indignant remonstrance with Peking (see below), some Tibetans talked of an appeal to the U.N. So far, the only outside help came from Calcutta. There a group of lamas staged a weeklong, nonstop recitation of Buddhist scriptures and prayers for peace. They then paraded through the streets beating drums, blowing 15-foot-long conches, and sprinkling holy water on the faithful...