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OCTOBER LIGHT by John Gardner. In his best novel yet, the prolific Gardner sets a spoof of pulp fiction inside a philosophical monologue on good and evil-all touched off by the family squabbles of two cranky old Vermonters...
Gardner has set himself roles wor thy of Hercules or a one-man band: the hilarious spoofer of pulp fiction, the composer of Kierkegaardian monologues good and evil, the mini-historian of science, progress and civilization, and the pastoral poet. In addition he rounds off his complex work on a note of affirmation that the reader may find more determined than logical, like the highnote climax to a trumpet solo. For the hyphen that Gardner most ardently longs for is the one that might connect night to day, lost to found, chaos to order-all the enemies, all the opposites...
...instance," Leone said, "federal water pollution controls hit New England pulp and paper industries disproportionately hard since those industries are smaller, older and less modern than in other areas of the country...
...Time Wasted. The jungle crushers were not Ludwig's only costly miscalculation. In place of the native forest he planned to plant broad tracts of Gmelina, a fast-growing Asian tree that takes a mere ten years to reach the age when it can be cut for lumber and pulp. In contrast, American cottonwood, which is similar to Gmelina in quality and yield, requires at least 30 years to reach maturity. But again the Amazon proved more complex than Ludwig's experts imagined. His property contained at least two distinct types of soil, one unsuitable for Gmelina. Now about...
...forest work has yet to produce a penny of earnings for Ludwig. The first lumber income will not appear on Jari's books any earlier than late 1979, after a $275 million wood-pulp mill, now being constructed on two huge barges in Japan, has been floated up the Jari River and set down on 3,900 wooden piles. By that time, Ludwig's first quarter-million-acre forest will be fully planted, and sections of it will be ready for clearcutting and reforestation. A second forest of the same size has already been mapped...