Word: taling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Faulkner's latest fairy tale about the human race contains no bogeyman, but as usual his protagonists have their hearts in the wrong place. Tacit thesis of Pylon is that airmen are not people, but a race apart, unaccountable, sinister, inhuman. "They ain't human like us. . . . Crash one and it ain't even blood when you haul him out; it's cylinder oil the same as in the crankcase." Though Author Faulkner obviously admires his creatures, they will seem to most readers less god-like than monstrous. But those who can manage to skip...
Setting of Pylon is the city of "New Valois." New Orleanians will quickly pierce the thin disguise, will wryly admit the biting likeness of the "Feinman Field" to their own "Abe" Shushan airport, reclaimed at enormous expense from the waters of Lake Pontchartrain. Dubious hero of the tale is a nameless and quixotic reporter, who is covering an airmeet at Feinman Field and stumbles on a queer situation, a flying triangle. Laverne, the woman-apex, is technically married to Shumann, a racing pilot, and her little boy bears his name. But she has no idea whether Shumann or the other...
...Constance Chatterley, full-blooded young wife to a paralytic peer, sought fulfillment elsewhere and found it with Mellors, her husband's gamekeeper. Author Lawrence, no champion of neat endings, left his lovers looking forward to the beginning of their life together. Author d'Orliac takes up the tale where Lawrence dropped it, reshuffles the cards and, by slipping a Gallic joker into the pack, makes the game come out exactly as she wants it. An implicit criticism of Lawrence's visceral philosophy, Lady Chatterley's Second Husband is no jest but a soberly serious attempt...
...Darkness is an emotional tale. For the first 50 pages it reads like a minority report on literary atmosphere ; then the action quickens, the figures take on clearer outline. Author Bishop's mist- clearing method is deliberate: the gradually opening eye which observes and slowly understands the story is that of a young boy. Observer-narrator is John, youngest member of a Virginia family whose blood is proud but queer. His grandfather is an eccentric lawyer. His dead father was a doctor who painted strange pictures. His Uncle Charlie has been a wildly attractive scapegrace from his youth...
ATTACK ON EVEREST-Hugh Ruttledge-McBride ($3.50). The leader of the latest assault on Everest tells the tale; many illustrations...