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...REBOUNDERS G REB AVG. Lou Silver, Harvard 5 67 13.4 Phil Brown, Brown 5 65 13.0 Mike Baskauskas, Yale 5 44 8.8 Adam Sutton, Dartmouth...
...PAUL REB...
...Paul Reb happens to be both intense and funny, and he writes with the odd, angular originality of an author who has been talking to himself at the typewriter for 25 years-mostly in Anchorage, Alaska. By all conceivable point systems, Confessions of a Future Scotsman must win the Most Mature First Novel award for 1973. Reb is 48, and he has lived out quite an apprenticeship: he studied photography with Ansel Adams; he prospected (long and unsuccessfully); and he filled a trunk "with ten to fifteen books half written, quarter written, or firmly in mind." Surely he has earned...
...Reb's "future Scotsman" is a fairly fantastic bucko named Jack, who believed himself to be an Irishman until he was 20 and played the part to the Abbey Theater hilt. Though he grew to only 60⅜ inches and had to dye his hair red, Jack strutted through life indulging in "imitation Irish ultimating" (like his 6 ft. 3 in. father), gloriously using the world as his straight man. "An Irishman," Jack concludes, looking back to lost innocence, "can get by with things another...
...Irish enough? Can one make a career of being nobody, the "Mr. Pulp of All Existence"? A lot of people do, Reb suggests. Actors of the latest lifestyle, they call it being contemporary. Count Jack out: he has been somebody once, and he must be somebody again. He meets his first Scotsman, "a moody sort" who wears tweed pants and smokes a pipe. The new hoot-mon studies his archetype and buries himself in Scottish history until his eyes throb. At the end of this surreal little journal of tribal transfer, not only Jack's heart but Jack...