Word: syme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cast-iron, enameled Lange and Mørso from Denmark and the Jøtul from Norway. One American manufacturer that assembles stoves of comparable quality is a down-home outfit called Vermont Castings, Inc. Two unfounded foundrymen started the firm four years ago in tiny Randolph, Vt. Duncan Syme, 42, was a sculptor with an M.F.A. degree from Yale, and Murray Howell, 34, was a bar owner and construction worker. Their meticulously crafted Defiant and Vigilant models, designed in elegant Federal period lines and selling for $575 and $470, are as prized by their owners as if they were antique automobiles...
...narrative proceeds with the leaping congruity of dreams. Gabriel Syme, a detective, is under orders to infiltrate a conspiracy to destroy society. He penetrates the Central Anarchist Council to find six other members, identified only as days of the week. Syme assumes the remaining role of Thursday. After a series of painful pursuits and duels, he learns the identity of five colleagues: they are all Scotland Yard detectives in disguise. And Sunday? It is his identity that provides the book's philosophical richness and tension...
...does not yield to simple theological analysis. Sunday may be God; he may just as easily be Satan or the State. The council is a satiric conceit; it is also a social prophecy that antedates Kafka's The Trial by 15 years and the CIA by two generations. Syme's story rings with the sonorities of the Book of Job. It is also a splendid detective yarn...
Rabbi Daniel B. Syme New York City...