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...this has the makings of the good gay farce that Novelist Fifield has chosen not to write. As the crystal ball clouds, the plot turns metaphysical. The countess half-believes in contact with a psychic realm that goes far beyond trickery or even telepathy. At a table-rapping seance, the countess herself is taken aback when her dead son's voice materializes. Finally, her crystal ball reveals tragedy in a bull ring, and a picador is killed...
...water may be the turquoise Mediterranean, an ice-skimmed quarry in Vermont, the translucent waters off Bermuda, the Pacific rolling in majestic rhythm toward the shores of San Diego. Around the world and across the nation, swimmers are sinking beneath the surface to fly like angels through an alien realm. This fascinating new playground, alive with beauty and tanged with danger, belongs to the skindiver...
...Wheel. Among the newer comics, from sickniks to social satirists, Joey stands alone. His wry, deadpan comments raise even the obvious to the realm of high comedy. At the Sands, in the midst of chaos and pure corn-Sinatra beating a bass drum that advertises his L.A. beanery, or Dean Martin drinking Scotch from an ice bucket-Joey can still be funny...
...Jenkins (276 pp.; Viking; $3.95), proves once again that a proper adventure story translates the reader instantly from a world that is merely actual-represented by thinning hair and thickening wife-to one that is gloriously real. This putative planet, circumnavigated by Author Jenkins' sea thriller, is the realm of the dead mariner's cryptic map, the deathbed revelation cut off in mid-gargle, the implacable enemy, and the beautiful girl scientist who carries on the quest that killed her father. The story's hero has the sort of face that is weathered by wind...
...apparent from these quotations from The Lichtenberg Reader, Lichtenberg was a master of the aphorism. Although he produced nothing else in the realm of great literature, his amazing skill at combining a sharp wit with deep insights was enough to endear him to his great contemporaries, Goethe and Kant. Later in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Lichtenberg was even more valued by such greats as Nietzsche and Kierkegaard who saw in him evidence of their own existential approach to philosophy. That Lichtenberg was in many ways ahead of his time is true, for in a time of rampant Enlightenment rationalism...