Word: wolfe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SUSAN E. WOLF Highland Park...
...LEONARD WOLF 327 pages. Little Brown...
California is, of course, the new Transylvania. The mind does not boggle therefore at the news that a professor at California State University at San Francisco teaches an accredited course in vampirism. He also has written a book. A question arises. Is Professor Wolf for vampirism or against it? The answer remains murky. For what the professor has done is to invent a scholarly equivalent of the celebrated New Journalism, whose practitioners take their own temperatures every second paragraph and print the resultant fever charts as reportage...
...cold," one of his early sentences begins, "and into my trained academic mind there push, in all their luminosity, Faust's lowering words to Mephistopheles." The lines he goes on to quote do not, as it happens, come within half a mile of the subject of vampires. Professor Wolf, as he explains, was sitting one sunny day on the Berkeley campus watching girls and feeling randy when he happened to think of Faust. And so? So nothing; Wolfs trained academic mind drops the thought, satisfied that it has served its purpose as a lyrical prelude...
...skull and I was reeled upward from the nourishing dark, and at last I heard it, reached for it, angrily." Spillane Agonistes, but what is it all about? Well, someone has called to say there is a live vampire to be interviewed. The caller was overstating the case, as Wolf admits, but never mind...