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...Sleeping Murder, Christie (1 last week) 2-Trinity, Uris(2) 3-Slapstick, Vonnegut (6) 4-Storm Warning, Higgins (3) 5-Dolores, Susann (5) 6-Touch Not the Cat, Stewart (4) 7-Ordinary People, Guest (7) 8-Blue Skies, No Candy, Greene (8) 9-Ceremony of the Innocent, Ca/dweff 10-Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wet, Kerne/man...
...Slapstick, Vonnegut...
...Vonnegut's principal characters are Dr. Wilbur Swain and Eliza Swain, a brother and sister who seem to owe some of their identities to Vladimir Nabokov's Van and Ada of Ada. The aged doctor camps out in the lobby remnant of the Empire State Building and relates the disjointed fantasy of his life and times...
...figurative significance. Wilbur's and Eliza's love and loneliness are conveyed in a slurry of short scenes, part science fiction, part dreamlike shorthand, whose allusions the author seems unwilling to share fully with his reader. Instead of ideas, he offers whimsy; instead of feeling, merely sentiment. Vonnegut calls his method "situational poetry...