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Think of an Ahab without a whale...
...next discovery was that Nina van Pallandt would de bunk part of Irving's story. Last week it was McCulloch alone who uncovered the sources for the core of Irving's manuscript. One friend of Irving's com pared McCulloch to "Ahab, going after the white whale, holding on, holding on, like it's his last great moment." Mc-Culloch's latest findings went to Associate Editor Lance Morrow, who has chronicled the Hughes saga from our cover story of Jan. 24 through this week's article. It would be unfair to poach...
...have broken the strings. We think we are then free, but we are still machines, not humans. We must go to life and suffer in search for human life. We must become animal (and here Jodorowsky braws like a donkey), accept passions. Now Pinocchio goes into the ocean. The whale is the universal mother. It eats him and he is reborn. He is a human being, beautiful, clean...
...debut showed similar qualities. Despite fitful laughter, both plays have a Cassandra complex. Their common theme has been constantly drummed in recent seasons-woe is me, woe is you, woe is America. Such plays are loaded with enough dolorous symbols to break the back of Melville's whale. To compound their disadvantages, both playwrights seem wedded to the fallacy that drama is some kind of nonstop talk show...
Amos & Boris by William Steig. Unpaged. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $4.50. A seagoing rodent and a whale sign a long-term mutual-assistance pact in a variation on the old lion-and-the-mouse caper. In an off year, the year's best...