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...UNDERTHE VOLCANO (375 pp.)- Malcolm Lowry-Reynal & Hitchcock...
...novels of recent years have come into the world with as much intellectual fanfare as Under the Volcano. Poet Stephen Spender calls it "the most interesting novel I have read since Lawrence and Joyce." Critic Alfred Kazin says it "belongs with the most original and creative novels of our time...
...crumpled the earth's crust ahead of them, like the bows of ships plowing through thin ice. Thus were formed the still growing, earthquaky mountains which ring the Pacific today. When the crumpling broke a hole through the solid crust, hot "magma" burst to the surface, building a volcano...
...some 2,000 feet down they found that the atoll was made of coral and similar stuff, rather like what was found on the surface. Then began a zone of heavier rock, which might be ash thrown out by a volcano, or limestone formed by corals and other sea creatures and compacted by pressure. At about 5,000 feet, they found what they had hoped to find: a "buried mountain" of heavy rock...
...might be the hard core of a volcano or peak formed by above-sea erosion. Only deep drilling could give the details. But the mountain was there, far below the growing zone of coral. Darwin, from the deck of his windjammer, had guessed right...