Word: porter
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Bearing out that notion, the book deals directly with a man who is made to "relive the whole of history in a single night's sleep." He is a pubkeeper named Porter, but his Freudian alias in the dream is Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker. Why Earwicker? Well, Porter's night life is invaded by an incestuous passion for his daughter Isobel (Iseult-Isolde). The inadmissible word "incest" sneaks by as "insect," specifically "earwig." Thus the odd name, says Burgess, is "dreamily appropriate...
Furthermore, in Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, "we have the hump of sexual guilt he carries on his back (he is a different porter now), a hint of the ape, and more than a hint of the insect." To the straightforward reader, it may appear that the explanation only compounds the problem, especially when Burgess points out that the French for "earwig" is perce-oreille, which "can be Hibernicized into Persse O'Reilly," a name appropriate to H. C. Earwicker's dream career as an Irish patriot. His initials also mean "Here Comes Everybody" (turning the sleeper into Everyman...
...also a pleasure to introduce the new Publisher, James R. Shepley, who conies to TIME-or rather re-turns to TIME-from the publisher's chair at FORTUNE. He brings with him a rare range of experience-re- porter, war correspondent, military aide, business executive...
TEMPLE G. PORTER Swansea, Mass...
...church officials involved in the day-to-day handling of ecclesiastical funds, the issue appears far more complex. Many strongly suspect that grandstand gestures of protest may in the end do more harm than good. Says Mrs. Porter Brown, general secretary of the Methodist Church's Board of Missions, which spends $16.6 million a year to support churches abroad, including some in South Africa: "If we take our money out of First National City, whom do we give it to? Barclays? Lloyd's? They are involved in South Africa just as much as First National City...