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...Great Pretender. London's respected Independent newspaper reported April 1 that Arthur Wynd, a farmer claiming to be the illegitimate son of Edward VIII's "forgotten" twin brother, was challenging Queen Elizabeth II's right to be monarch. As outrage grew over the prospect of a royal DNA test, the paper admitted that it had made up the whole thing...
...nicknames of the landmarks that dot the holy land are as familiar as the wind to golfers: the Swilken Burn, the Principal's Nose, the Beardies, the Coffins, Hell Bunker, the Road Hole, Granny Clarke's Wynd, the Valley of Sin. An elderly caddie named Alex, who wears a checkered cap but otherwise has the grace not to be too picturesque, checks them off as you go. Every calamity has its accompanying parable: "This bunker you're buried in is the Bob Jones bunker. Unable to escape it, he stormed off the property and pledged never to return. Of course...
Thus spak the PATRYK GRAY, a baldyng guye, "Ful wel I loved to serv the FBYe, But shame, I burnd the fyls and sore hav synnd And dizzy-grow from hangyn slow, slow in the wynd." Thys was the merrye crew, on TV cache. And who can say if cumen in impeache? Nor yet whych man will ansyr to what cry me? No oon can know, at Thysse Poynt in Tyme...
Young (33) Author Wynd was born in Tokyo of Scottish (Baptist missionary) parents, was thus a Japanese citizen as well as a British subject. He lived in Tokyo until he was 18. Then he went to high school in Atlantic City, to the University of Edinburgh, and wound up in Malaya as a British intelligence officer with the Indian Army. The next time he saw Japan was as a prisoner of war. He started his novel in Bibai Prison Camp...
...Though Wynd obviously should know Japan at firsthand, Black Fountains reads as though it might have been written in a U.S. public library. The characters are stock and wooden, fitted out with set speeches: Heroine Omi with her U.S. education, her once-liberal parents who have swallowed the new Japanese nationalist ideology, the old housekeeper turned spy. Wynd also spells out a message: there are lots of good Japanese but they cannot effectively buck the bad ones. Says Heroine Omi: "God grant that the Americans see this! . . . This country has to be cleaned. We haven't the strength...