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...good WYF was ther, Mr. Mitchell's owne, Wel koude she carp upon hir telephone. She lyk to tel the papers, quote-unquote: "Dorst noon can mak myn housband a scapegoate...
...gruesome elements, and Thomas Babe has appropriated them in order, it appears, to account for the behavior of Walter and Griselda. "On his lust present was al his thoght," Chaucer writes of the Lord (meaning his immediate pleasure or wish), and speaks of his "merveillous desir his wyf t'assaye." Babe, ingeniously, has translated this "lust" or "desir" into Walter's elaborate obsession with a pageant he is composing. We do not learn much about the pageant except that it presumably celebrates some ideal of constancy and that it involves the character of Herod, but we do know that...
...WYF, by J. M. Scott (255 pp.; Dutton; $3.50), is a seaworthy adventure novel with probably the most ingeniously constructed plot in the whole castaways-on-a-raft class. The story starts with a series of cryptic messages in the agony column of a London newspaper. The key message: "Sea-Wyf: Intend to find you by publishing story of 14 weeks and Number Four. Biscuit...
...Singapore in 1942. Four of the ship's survivors lived 14 weeks on a raft; they knew each other only by nicknames. One, "Biscuit," was an Irish bartender; another, "Bulldog," a sahib type. "Number Four" was the ship's purser, a one-legged mulatto. "Sea-Wyf" (mermaid) was a handsome young woman of mystery, and much of the story concerns her saintly attempts to impose decency on the three men, although thirst, storms, submarines and rat-infested atolls worked to turn them into cowards and murderers...
...tribesmen; they will probably ask her to lead campaigns of conquest all over the world. Her mining successes have provided her with funds for a great crusade; her versatility has been proved; and if her leadership can be enlisted, their causes is assured of victory, Mr. Shaw and the Wyf of Bathe will be vindicated, and the Superman will have...
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