Word: pencilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Please forgive this pencil, but if you could send me . . ." From Korea and U S training camps, letters with this sort of opening are streaming into Hollywood again, asking for pinups. The requests are already up 400% over the normal peacetime demand...
...PENCIL OF GOD (204 pp.)-Pierre Marcelin and Philippe Thoby-Marcelin -Houghton Mifflin...
Fling and consequences form the action of The Pencil of God, an engrossing novel about the damage wrought by African voodoo on middle-class Haitians. Product of a miniature literary renaissance in Haiti, The Pencil of God gleams with quaint freshness, a strange blend of Haitian folklore and Western sophistication. To many U.S. readers the world of Diogène Cyprien may, in fact, seem almost outlandish: here the symbols of voodoo and Roman Catholicism merge in half-enlightened minds, men are possessed by implacable spirits they cannot control, and the day-to-day world is seen as an acting...
...late. A few days later his eldest boy dies in a fever. His wife gone mad, Diogène himself is found dead on his boy's grave. Voodoo has done its work-or as Diogène's half-Christian uncle sums everything up, "The pencil of God has no eraser...
...story could also stand some simple blue-pencil tightening. But it is still the best short story this reviewer has read in the Advocate in a long time...