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...about his crusade. Apparently a quiet-spoken Kane County Republican, the Fox explained that he is an enthusiastic fisherman and hunter who remembers when Kane County was unspoiled. "I do a lot of walking," he said. "I got tired of watching the smoke and the filth and the little streams dying one by one. A man ought to be able to drink from a stream when he's thirsty or take his son out fishing. Finally, I decided to do something-the courts weren't doing anything to these polluters except granting continuance after continuance...
ISLANDS IN THE STREAM by Ernest Hemingway. 466 pages. Scribners...
...largely as a result, won a Nobel Prize. But he never released the Thomas Hudson narratives. Now they have been made public by Scribners and Mary Hemingway, admittedly only after long deliberation. The decision may be challenged, for Islands in the Stream is in many ways a stunningly bad book. At his best, Ernest Hemingway the writer knew that Papa Hemingway the public figure was his own worst literary creation. One suspects he would have eventually got round to slashing Islands in the Stream back by a third or a half its present length. Yet for Papa watchers and Hemingway...
...Since 1964, the beginning of what the North Vietnamese call the American War of Destruction, there has been a steady stream of Americans who have gone in small groups-journalists, people associated with the peace movement and so on. About a month before I went Noam Chomsky from M. I. T. went to Hanoi and while he was there was unexpectedly asked to lecture on linguistics. When he was leaving the North Vietnamese told him they wanted to receive more Americans, especially doctors and biologists. So, on rather short notice, I went with two other guys especially for the purpose...
...country, one would rarely attempt to understand the functional reality that one can perceive. If you were looking at a stream you would never ask why it was moving or what its energy force was. You realize immediately that you have no idea, and that the question is a stupid one. It is impossibly confusing, potentially a life's work trying to sort out that one little piece of ground, and short of that, it is enough to just sit and watch it flow...