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That is pretty much how things go in this vast Genesis of Middle-earth, the Elvish books of Exodus and Kings, the combined Paradise Lost, Prometheus revisited and revised Bulfinch's Mythology that is The Silmarillion. Tolkien brooded over it for a lifetime but never got it published...
...hold on sanity. Only his ability to transmute his inner torment into dramatic art saved him. His is a classic case of what Edmund Wilson called "the wound and the bow." From the suppurating wound of his domestic life, as un-healing as was the eagle-torn liver of Prometheus, he gathered the strength to draw the bow of craft, passion and insight and to launch an arrow of dramatic significance that is still in flight more than half a century after his death...
...itself." The Empire State is no longer the world's tallest building; much of its meaning has therefore been lost. But Hine's photos preserve that meaning, and every rigger perched on the dizzy I beams remains, in the black and white, a kind of all-American Prometheus...
...Alexander Eliot. 320 pages. McGraw-Hill. $39.95. This dizzying book hurls the reader around the world and across the centuries in pursuit of the common roots of mankind's myths. Here is Himbui the Hummingbird, the fire bringer of Peru's Jivaro Indians, cheek by jowl with Prometheus. Here is Polynesian Forest God Tanemahuta forcibly separating Father Sky from Mother Earth. Visions of heavens and hells are shared by Aztec and Hindu, Algonquin and Buddhist. This sweeping survey of human imagination is buttressed by 1,300 illustrations, excellent maps, and essays by Scholars Joseph Campbell and Mircea Eliade...
...possibility that this grim scene will become a reality some day is highly remote. But the specter of nuclear catastrophe - energetically raised by Consumerist Ralph Nader and heightened by such books as John Fuller's We Almost Lost Detroit and The Prometheus Crisis by Thomas Scortia and Frank Robinson - has seeped deep into the U.S. consciousness. A growing number of Americans are now more concerned about the consequences of nuclear accidents than they are about the need for nuclear energy. To them, the menace presented by the nation's 56 operating nuclear power plants...