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Social Security. In Penang, Malaya, public notice in the Straits Times announced: "All persons residing in Kedah and Perlis who are in possession of Orang Utans are required to declare them to the ame Warden. Kedah and Perlis. Sungei Patani, within ten days for Registration...
...long title story, the battle lines are swiftly drawn. Smith, the 17-year-old narrator, is serving a stretch in a Borstal Institution for juvenile delinquents (his offense: stealing ?150 from a bakery). Encouraged by the hearty, sports-loving warden to train for an All-England crosscountry race of Borstal inmates, Smith lets down his high-minded sponsor by deliberately quitting in the stretch. Why? Because Smith knows "it's war between me and them," and has no intention of giving aid and comfort to the enemy...
Many of the other stories point the same moral, and yet Author Sillitoe is almost never bitter, self-pitying or sentimental. Most of his people are buoyed by a bottomless optimism. As Smith puts it, talking about the warden: "It's dead blokes like him as have the whiphand over blokes like me, and I'm almost dead sure it always will be that way, but even so, by Christ, I'd rather be like I am-always on the run and breaking into shops for a packet of fags and a jar of jam-than have...
Living Character. Shortly after Gary's novel first came out in France in 1956, Gary had a long letter from a game warden living in the Ivory Coast territory of French West Africa. Raphael Matta, a Frenchman of Italian descent, seemed Morel sprung to uncanny life-though Gary and Matta had never met or heard the other's name. Like Morel, Matta had undergone a shattering World War II experience. An exploding land mine almost took his life, and left him totally deaf...
Contradictory Truth. In the three earlier books, time stood still as Novelist Durrell sought to prove how any single event can be variously interpreted by different participants. In Justine, Purse-warden's suicide is attributed to acedia, or boredom with life; Balthazar suggests that the suicide was caused by his failure as an artist; in Mountolive, the motive becomes purely political; and now in Clea, it seems established that Pursewarden took his life in an ironic expiation of his incestuous love for his blind sister. Durrell's point: "Truth is what most contradicts itself...