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...first read Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano on the all-night train trip from Central Mexico to the U.S. border at Nuevo Laredo. The trip, particularly in the second class compartment, easily beats a coast-to-coast Greyhound for discomfort. Mexican women with three children and a rooster buy one ticket, and then, once on the train, let their charges squirm their way over into the seat that you, God damn it, paid full fare...
...began Under the Volcano as the train left the quiet, modern city of San Luis Potosi, read through the night, and finished it just outside of Nuevo Laredo. Even from the first deliberately subdued chapters, I found the novel completely engrossing. By the mid-point I was entirely under Lowry's spell. The distractions of each station-stop became intertwined with the awesome experience of discovering Malcolm Lowry. A small pig urinated on my duffle bag, right there in the car. Lowry's Consul awoke from a drunken stupor, trying to focus on the scorpion in front of him, stringing...
...three separate spots on both sides of the Pacific Ocean last week, natural disasters dealt death and destruction. A long-dormant Central American volcano unexpectedly blew up, and severe earthquakes produced panic in a pair of crowded capitals...
...Monster. The job can be dangerous as well as difficult. At The Geysers, a new well erupted with such furious force that the scalded workmen were convinced they had tapped a live volcano. To cool it off, they pumped in cold water until a nearby stream ran dry. Then they tried a concrete plug, without success. "The Monster," as they dubbed the well a decade ago, continues to spout...
DARK AS THE GRAVE WHEREIN MY FRIEND IS LAID, by Malcolm Lowry. A 1945-46 visit to Mexico furnished the basis for this fragmented, posthumous half-novel by a boozy-brilliant man to whom writing was an unending journey and life the landscape under the volcano...