Word: rumbelow
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...LAND OF RUMBELOW by Carlos Baker. 370 pages. Scribner...
...literary critic who has been smart for a long time, tastefully begins his book with only two quotations, neither from Kierkegaard. But there are subtler sorts of title-page-manship, and Baker uses one of the most telling: the subtitle, or direction for use, of The Land of Rumbelow is A Fable in the Form of a Novel. Baker means to put the reader on notice that the events he describes are not to be taken only for themselves; they illustrate Truth...
According to an old British morality play, Rumbelow is a mythical town three miles from hell. For Professor Dan Sherwood, on the run from memory and conscience (a dead wife, a betrayed friend), Rumbelow is Tucson, Ariz. He is stranded there by chance, beaned by a hitchhiker who represents Evil the way Molotov used to represent Russia. Dan is led from what Baker calls the excremental view of life to the sacramental view by the healing Arizona sun, long quiet talks and the love of a good woman. A fair example of the long quiet talks follows. Dan is yaketing...
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