Volume 20, Number 19 · November 29, 1973
Malcolm Lowry's Inferno
By William H. Gass
Malcolm Lowry: A Biography
by Douglas Day
Oxford University Press, 425 pp., $10.00
There is no o'clock in a cantina. They are dim as a church is dim, often candle-lit or momentarily illuminated by sudden dusts of light from slits in dirty unscheduled walls, and there is the frequent murmur of the priests at service or the worshipers who attend even at odd hours the shrine of this or that outlandish saint—the Virgin for those who have nobody with, for instance—sanctuaries with strange yet significant names: El Bosque or the Bella Vista Bar, the Salón Ofélia, El Petate, El Farolito (Lowry once shuffled up a book of poems called The Lighthouse Invites the Storm).
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