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FORGET ABOUT WHETHER AN ERRANT COMET, ANGRY volcano or invidious virus killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Scientists have still not explained how the Saurian dynasty got started or why it dominated the earth for more than 150 million years. The discovery in northwestern Argentina of the fossilized skeleton of a 10-kg (22-lb.) carnivore that is 230 million years old may help paleontologists begin to solve the mystery. In the British journal Nature, researchers from the University of Chicago and the National University of San Juan, Argentina, report that the dog-size predator is the most primitive...
...Volcano Lover: A Romance, Sontag's first book in 25 years, focuses on Sir William Hamilton (Sontag calls him the Cavaliere throughout the book). Cavaliere is the British ambassador to Naples, a rabid collector of potpourri and vulcanist who married his first wife Catherine for money. After Catherine's death, the Cavaliere falls in love with Emma; through a strange twist, however, she turns around and finds love in a young British admiral...
...Volcano Lover: A Romance by Susan Sontag $22.00, from Farrar, Strus and Girous Publishers...
...novel is good, but it's not Sontag at her best. Though she shuns it, the temptation to contrast Volcano Lover with her earlier work is irresistible. Sontag--the same woman who was influenced by the novels and plays of Batille and Artaud and the philosophy of Sartre, Camus, Lukacs, Barthes and Canetti--has turned her back on the present by ignoring the history of her work...
Like Rachmaninov, the stubborn composer who used 19th-century models for his music, Sontag is a willful anachronism and has never been accepted by critics and academics. Unlike Rachmaninov, however, it is doubtful that Sontag's Volcano Lover Work will be embraced by the general public. Now the novelty, the taboo topics have vanished from Sontag's art; a shadow of the pioneer of the '60s has settled into his book...