. (shame on the editor) an_
dangling.

occasional
metaphor: “She kept the old
blind horse he won at cards
that got struck by lightning.”
(Ever seen cards struck by
lightning?)

| Then there are the bits for
_ the feminists: “boys... had to

deal with women they were
their

_ unable to prove.
superiority to except by one
exhausting act.” And female
anxiety: “I saw myself in the
mit:or and thought, that is

an old woman’s body, you.

cannot walk naked across a
room to him wearing that. I
smuggled myself into his bed
wearing a_ towel.’’
Marguerite Heber,
failed, then born-again
Anglican nun of The Glassy
“Sea is. too. sad, too
pessimistic. It’s not enough,
in Engel’s words, to agree
that, “to lead a harmless
existence in the twentieth
century is a great ac-
complishment.” Nor are all
women victims, all men.
afraid of women. If The.
Glassy Sea were the middle
volume of a trilogy the next
and last’ episode would
logically’ describe a_ lady:
hermit born, raised and

buried in ‘an empty cave:n. -—
AS -
notes, :

But there's. more.
Marguerite Heber
“Some of us hatch only: in
stages.” And with Marian

| _ Page 26, December 43, 1978 - North Shor eNews:

- volume are,
‘longish short ‘story and a
- short-ish . novel.

the

Engel, the stages are wholly
engrossing.

No Man's ‘Meat and -The
Enchanted’ ‘Pimp - by Morley

- Callaghan. Published by The
Macmillan .

Company of
‘Canada, Limited. $9. 95.

-Touted as twin novellas,
the two stories in this stim
in’ truth,

‘The first,

written in 1931, went un-
published, in the com-'
mercial sense, until now,

because of the more tender
_ mores of:that innocent time. _

It is, today, infintely less
-offensive than tv. com-
merciais for feminine
— a gentle, and
naively.

sweet
touching

‘tale of

because of a lengthy, after
dinner conversation in which

Mr.
fervor, told me a few months

ago that the central clinical
premise of Marian Engel’s
Bear was improbable, un-

believable and obscene. Mr.’
“Callaghan |
examples from nature to.

cited many

make and bolster that case.

‘As with most Old School
Chauvinists, Morley
Callaghan accomplishes the
isolation of Woman by

placing her on a pedestal. -

Ironically, The Enchanted

Pimp and The Glassy Sea
bear
_ characteristics.
. deodorants and acne Cures: peso —

some . common

boredom, ‘silly-stakes poker | |

and, in the’ climax, house-
broken lesbianism.

The real novella of the

volume, The Enchanted
Pimp, has long been in
Callaghan’s) mind. No

. follower of fashion, Morley
Callaghan seems still fiercely |
wedded to the notion that

there are Good Women and. }

- Hookers but that there §is,

somewhere, The.

Hooker

With. The Heart. of: Gold. |

Moreover,
Hooker sells,
dreams, not
release. I believe

the ‘Honest
he believes,

lubricious
this -

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‘every image, every nuance

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