Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rose-Hip Jam. The patient, democratic Swiss provide Sam with a defense counsel, who drops in every day for a little chat and begs Sam to own up to being Stiller. And soon. Stiller's wife, who is "convinced that she knows her husband better than he knows himself," arrives at the prison and "recognizes" Sam immediately. Julika is a beauty, with hair "red, like rosehip jam," and the authorities encourage Sam to take long walks with her and reminisce about "their" married life. Since Julika is just Sam's type, he soon finds himself making love...
...weeks pass, Sam learns all there is to learn about Stiller. He sees Stiller's old studio and pieces of sculpture, meets Stiller's friends and relations. He even meets the woman whom Stiller ran away with: she is the wife of the lawyer who has been chosen to prosecute...
...official world that denied his existence; in I'm Not Stiller, he struggles to deny the existence that the same world imposes on him. And, as in The Castle, the setting and characters in I'm Not Stiller may be understood symbolically as well as really. Sam's "prison" is his own fear. The "border" at which he is arrested divides fantasy from reality. The "prosecuting counsel" is the accusing finger of a wronged husband; the "defense counsel" is the part of Sam that longs to be at peace with the world...
Ingenious Blend. But can Sam be proved to be Stiller? That is the question-and it is one that has always intrigued the theologians and philosophers who have delved into the problem of personal identity. "Good Swiss commonsense" knows that "Sam White" is the fiction of a desperate man who is determined to escape not only from his past but from the self by which he is known to others. But the Stiller beneath the Sam is equally sure that there is much more in him than others can perceive: by running away to the New World and becoming "another...
...other varsity point producers were Sam Halaby and Dick Williams, second and third in the pole vault; Hank Abbott, third in the shot; Skip Pescosolido and Chris Angermeyer, second and third in the javelin; Art Cahn, second to John Slowik in the 880; Dyke Benjamin, third in the two-mile; and Neil Muncaster and deKiewiet, second and third in the discus