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A Refreshing Del
(Continued from Page 4) counts are general, they are never
Goddard notices details and minute by minute descriptions,
thinks them important. This qua- and yet he includes such extrane-
lity manifests itself in various ous material as his meals. A clue
ways, from clever detection, often to his sentence structure can be
psychologically oriented, to his found in some of the newspaper
amazingly frequent and complete clippings included with the cases;
accounts of meals during the time it is rather journalistic, and yet
spent on a case; he pays special he occasionally slips into almost
attention to wine and oysters! It lyrical (for Goddard) passages:
was undoubtedly this perception ,. . the prisoner and myself
that made him such a fine detec- were escorted by the mounted
tive, and apparently Goddard had Dragoons, flourishing their
more than usual skill. Besides be- draw bright sabres under a
ing hired for secret service to the brilliant moonlight, which, to-
king, he was sent on trips of great gether with a hoar frost that
responsibility, at one time being had settled on the hedges and
assigned escort to the Emperor of trees, with a de-p snow upon
Russia. He even knew ballistics the ground, with the tramping
and a few other sciences of modern sound of horses hoofs on the
crime detection. frozen icy road, produced a very
sovel effect.
GODDARD'S style is unusual This passage. when compared
and highly personal. His ac- to preceding ones, is astonishing,
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ACTUALLY, Meursault and Cla
but then Goddard Is always full (Continued from Page 8) mence have a lot in common.
of surprises. and all spiritual affinity between Though they start at opposite ends
While the last few episodes are the two men abruptly ended. By of the social world-Meursault was
'erhaps the most exciting aad de- nature, Camus is a "doer," not a in many ways a social hermit,
talker. Jean Baptiste only talks whereas Jean-Baptiste was an
tailed, and closer to our present- and nothing comes of it; this is eminently successful man within
day idea of detection, all of them something Camus particularly society-they both arrive at the
are interesting and informative. seems to detest. same mental terminal. And al-
Goddard sympathetically des- That's one of the nice things though Clamence has a lot more to
cribes the apprelhension of two about Camus. He has stated that say than Meursault, the two men
cribs te aprehnsio oftwohave the common spiritual umbi-
lunatics, one appropriately named his personal motto is to live life licus: neither has found sini -
Fitzherbert Batty, Esquire. An- happily with only the knowledgecsnei esa sn
other time he is astute enough to that he has at his command. In cane in life's activities.
discover that it really was the looking at others, he is quite satis- the en years that separate the
butler "who done it." Later, he fled with any man who finds two novels have caused quite a
e nalleged b t meaning in his work. For Camus, change in Camus. There no longer
pursues analed bankrupt tothsithulmaecivmn, seems to be any confusion about
Wisconsin, U.S.A., ("2,000 miles this is the ultimate achievement. his position regarding the universe
from N. York," he adds to locate Hence, the laborer who is suited as absurd, the view that he pro-
this place) only to discover that for his tasks and enjoys them is pounded in The Stranger. The Fal
the laws of this territory cannot every bit as esteemed in Camus' tells us that Camus has no bond
cover him and that he must re- mind as the brilliant, but happy, with the man who does nothing,
turn without the man or the philosopher. Camus' comment is who is willing to sit this life out b
money. Finally, by cleverly dis- that there are far too few satisfied ret.,eating to apathy.
cerning and following clues, he workers, and no happy philoso- We don't as yet know what
tracks down a man who had pub- phers. Camus would do with his existen-
lished his own obituary notice and One thing seems certain. The tialist choice, but Jean-Baptiste
then fled to Australia via Egypt. Fall is a transitional book. It seems Clamence is the example of what
This last mentioned case, the final to be the start of something great- his creator would never do. Thus,
one in the book, was completed in er; perhaps a statement by the The Fall seems definitely to be
1864-65, when Goddard was 64 author of his final, personal beliefs, the start of something new is
years of age and still quite active, although Camus would never be so Camus; hence, it has the transi-
Henry Goddard is an extremely foolish as to declare anything final. tional quality in the author's
likeable person; to read his me- If we trace his development growth.
moirs is to enjoy his company. He through The Fall, we readily notice It would be nice if Camus' read-
is not so romantic or remarkable a marked change in attitude. The irg audience, especially all the
as Sherlock Holmes, nor is he as author might have had some sym- young students who have his
earthy as Mickey Spillane, but I pathy for Meursault and it was books, could grow as does the au-
believe that he has, in his own easy to feel that much of The thor. Perhaps this is asking too
way, contributed something par- Stranger was autobiographical. It much. At any rate, many of us
ticularly refreshing to the world is quite the opposite with The Fall. eagerly await his next literary
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