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GUAYAQUIL, ECUADOR, June 24--An eight-man film team, including four Harvard graduate and undergraduate students, took the first pictures of an erupting volcano in the Galapagos Islands early this week...
Flying in an Ecuadoran Air Force plane, the group--which is retracing Charles Darwin's epic voyage in the Beagle over 130 years ago--spent two hours circling the volcano...
Malcolm Lowry suffered the agonies of a man who combined Proustian ambitions with a writer's block. He conceived of an organic body of work to be called The Voyage That Never Ends, at the heart of which would rest his one masterpiece, Under the Volcano (1947). That novel-perhaps the only story of an alcoholic ever to succeed at the level of tragedy rather than self-pity -revealed in Lowry a dark, obsessive genius that kept struggling for light. It never shone fully in his two other novels (Ultramarine, Lunar Caustic), his poems, or in the short stories...
...shadow of the plane below them, the eternal moving cross . . ."). At first, Wilderness seems like a man going to be buried rather than resurrected. The news catches up with him that his latest novel, The Valley of the Shadow of Death (Lowry's original title for Under the Volcano), has been turned down by his British publisher. After that disappointment, he takes to full-scale drinking, surrounded by an unending hangover and cantina jukeboxes blaring I'm Dreaming of a White Christinas...
...with the U.S. flag flying above it. Now the flag has been lowered as a concession to Japanese sensibilities, and in its place a copper flag has been raised. When a treaty is signed this week or next, the U.S. will officially return to the Japanese the Bonin and Volcano Islands, of which Iwo Jima is one, and two other Pacific islands...