Word: riverboats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reader is plunged into a make belief, not a make-believe world. Herman Melville's novel The Confidence-Man was an early and largely forgotten guide. More studied than read, the book conjured up a group of impostors, gamblers, land agents and divines on an 1850s Mississippi riverboat. The only one to suffer loss of innocence on the trip was the reader, who had been exposed to a masquerade of identities and motivations. He was left with a befuddling sense of life as it is lived but rarely understood...
...decisions in their designs, both good and evil. The call to action swept their people along. The polls show grave doubts among the American people about where Ronald Reagan is taking us. That uncertainty was expressed colorfully by Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker when he described Reaganomics as a "riverboat gamble." But there is an irresistible appeal to fall in behind a man when he promises adventure, even when one may not agree with him. Tennyson said it well. "I myself must mix with action, lest I wither by despair...
...everthing else, he composes the lyrics for songs describing important events and people in his life. His favorite one is about the time he spent working on a riverboat during his undergraduate years at Ole Miss...
...deeper and darker up this river that snakes through the jungle like a bird--the "silly little bird" of Heart of Darkness--trailing like a serpent. Mahler's dense harmonic texture surrounds the flow, but does not stagnate it. Joseph Conrad, a riverboat man himself, especially in his Malaysian period, would have liked this bastard child as much as a trip...
...auspicious opening was a difficult act to follow, and many Farmerites wondered whether the Riverworld was wide enough to sustain a projected tetralogy. The author's next works allayed all fears. The Fabulous Riverboat gives Burton some delightful traveling companions. He and the grownup Alice Liddell Hargreaves (child model for Lewis Carroll's Alice) meet a cynical fellow named Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who constructs a side-wheel steamer to voyage upriver. The second volume also introduces Cyrano de Bergerac and England's King John, who attempted to steal the throne from his brother Richard in real life...