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...some adolescent reason that The Catcher in the Rye's Holden Caulfield would have understood, Clint Williams ponders suicide. "Of course, if I end up in some lousy place like Hell," he reflects in his diary, "it would be a miserable mistake. The thing I am gambling on is that after death people become automatically ghosts, and possess thereby complete freedom of movement. ADVANTAGES: I could follow Berry-berry around from place to place...
...BALLAD OF PECKHAM RYE (160 pp.) -Muriel Spark-Lippincott...
...horns. When he looks at people, he is "like a succubus whose mouth is its eyes." In the short span of this hilarious novel, Douglas the Devil coaxes into mortal sin not only Humphrey Place but most of the first citizens in the South London district of Peckham Rye...
...been compared to Evelyn Waugh, but the comparison is inexact: she is, in fact, a kind of welfare state Jane Austen, a novelist in whose hands the commonplace becomes mysteriously implausible, the routine eerily irrational. Unlike the scheming septuagenarians of her earlier novel, Memento Mori, the inhabitants of Peckham Rye are so determinedly average that they lack even the capacity to sin grandly. When Mr. Vincent Druce, the managing director of a small textile firm, visits his secretary, Miss Merle Coverdale, to make love to her in the evening, their activity is as carefully calculated as the time-motion studies...
...Your cover story read like a watered-down satire with tongue on rye, instead of tongue in cheek, until I reached the perceptive quote from School Psychologist Koss. The quotes that followed, especially the one from "Anti-Conformity Leaguer" Ginger Powers [whose league disbanded because it was becoming too organized], quieted my fear that even TIME had fallen into the easy rut of sameness that suburban living is apt to breed...