Word: witts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...person whose story we follow through this curious world is named Hugh Person, sometimes mispronounced "you person." The young agent of a New York publisher, he is inclined to somnambulance and sexual self-doubts. The story itself consists of four visits which Person makes to the Swiss town of Witt, layered upon each other and made transparent to the narrating eye. So that there will be no future--only chunks of present and past--the last visit sandwiches the previous ones by beginning and ending the novel...
...time, Vermont was chic, and Alaska and Spain were favorite places to get away from it all. Nowadays those who really want to drop out head for Tobago, Sardinia and Pago Pago. One potential hideaway that until now has been completely ignored, however, is De Witt Isle, five miles off the southern coast of Tasmania* in the savage, blustery "Roaring Forties." Its assets are 4,000 acres of jagged rocks, tangled undergrowth and trees twisted and bent by the battering winds. Local fishermen call it the "Big Witch," and settlers have avoided it like the plague, but bandicoots (ratlike marsupials...
...does Jane Cooper, 18, a pert Melbourne high school graduate, who emigrated there with three goats, several chickens and a number of cats brought along to stand guard against the bandicoots. Why De Witt? "I was frightened at the way life is lived today in our cities," says Jane. "I wanted to be alone, to have some time to think and find out about myself...
...Witt still has plenty of disadvantages. The cats so far have not much impressed the bandicoots, which occasionally scamper across Jane's face at night and persist in digging up the vegetable seeds she has planted in a small garden. But she has made a friend -a penguin named Mickey Mouse -and she is beginning to feel that "this is my world and my life . . . it is so beautiful here I can't imagine Melbourne any longer." To millions of citybound Australians, Jane has become something of a heroine, but most apparently want to share her adventures vicariously...
Although Corona had no criminal record in Sutter County, in 1956 he spent three months in De Witt State Hospital, a nearby mental institution, after being committed by his brother Natividad; two doctors tentatively diagnosed his illness as schizophrenia. He was released as "cured." A year ago, he and Natividad were defendants in a civil suit filed in Yuba County by one José Raya; Raya won $250,000 in damages against Natividad for an attack, apparently with a machete. No judgment was entered against Juan. Police believe Natividad fled to Mexico two months ago. The Rev. Joseph Bishop...