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Ru By Lehi Th? Non-Runner's Book Grossberger; Collier Books; The Non-Runner's Boo Grossberger, is the kint "cute" or "silly." Unforti Humor is a very dang indulge in. Almost everj time or another, "Hey, time; I bet I could write < most aspirations of this n? But Ziegel and Grossbc impulse to capitalize on tl is a bestseller, but not simply a cute book to hav part of the running craze; And cuteness is fine ai has proven that it doesn't and Shaun Cassidy are ci faces are cute. Stuffing cute. So humor is more thai more than silly. In the Runner's Quiz," we find t "23. Izzy Baldwin was non-running. 24. Macar Cameroons. 25. Vidal Sa maroon." Now, that's about as sil o f inf i nn o 1 n? nrlr Witt n/\n u VTUl I\, UUL 11W1 J statements appeal to a p humor. We laugh at it o what else to do. After all, humor doesn' in any case; the best h and Woody Allen, to n? admired for their literar By Don Fobes Kalki by Goff Vidal. Ballantme. $2 5 The blurbs on the cove Vidal's latest effort, Kai be misleading. One revie it's "the terrifying ta demonic cult leader who create a new race by d this one!" That is not th and be all by a long shot, debatable whether I demonic in the purest sen: The Dlot is rea straightforward. An e) named Kelly surfaces (Katmandu) and claims final reincarnation (lOtl great Hindu god Vishn closely following Brahm calls himself Kalki and \ end of the world is near life cycle is at hand. T1 blue-eyed, self-pro messiah attracts thoiu rlpvr?tf?H ? Hmi rorc u/nrHui MVIAasa* VA U TT V7I 1V1 T? NOW, in the lush Hollyv lurks a woman for all named Teddy Ottinger wl strangely like Gore Vidal his Myra Breckenridge m Ottinger is bisexual, a b? author, an accomplished and a world famous aviat Her idol is Amelia Ear it seems the author woul believe that perhaps, just Teddy is the reincari C THE BRI1 794-1 U_.< ior ^ J 100 R? UtertC < fining; man Stiles by Vic Ziegel and Lewi3 S2.95. k, by Vic Ziegel and Lewis i of work that people call mately, it's not "funny." [erous field for a writer to rone says to himself at one I sav funnv things all the a funny book." Fortunately, ature are never fulfilled, irger just couldn't resist the le running craze. Their book because it's amusing; it's e on the shelf. It's as much a as Adidas. > far as it goes, but history go very far. Barry Manilow ite. Hula-hoops and "smile" people into phone booths is n cute, and it's a whole lot chapter titled "The Nonhese true or false questions: the first man to moon while oons are a staple in the issoon is often festooned in Ily as you could ask for from i-sequiturs and meaningless i art of the psyche other than uly because we don't know ; t translate to paper too well umorists (Robert Benchley j une two) have been more 1 y ability than their sense of I Kcxlki o Earhart. All in k< Hinrln cnirit ? ? Teddy is assign r of Gore Kalki in the hills of ki, might in the course of e (wer says his personal pilol le of a lover. Yes, Kalki c sought to human, likes his s< estroying he preaches selfn ie end all evils of the flesh. And, it's Teddy is Vidal's Calki is ? his way to bem se. depravity and inh sonably late '70s. The book c-GI Joe story of Doomsda> in Asia stant monologue 1 to be the fingers the depths i) of the has sunk. His emj u. Kelly, law of entropy, tha in script, running out of enei yarns the down. ? a new Vidal tells us o he blond, other page that n claimed pose, meaning or a >ands of "Yes, the seventiei ide. time to start a reli born knowing that vood Hills exist, that there's seasons why, then let god ho sounds up the empty space in one of The story has oods. Ms. twists, and it woi jst-selling detail the plot to e: engineer tell you that in a or. Garden extravag hart, and blown to bits by a I d have us March 15, and Aj ; perhaps, predicted date foi lation of earth. LLIANT ALTERNAT !948 fss N \ //cT LT I iQ' moor \ W imvnu X^^GERVAIS verb^nd Drive >>lumbla, South Carolina 29169 . . I satire u humor. Writing down jokes and two very different things. No one could deny that the runr some satiric needling; the fact thi running has been so glorified a prime stuff for satire. But, con pressed intentions, Ziegel and Gr< written a satire. Satire and social comment go Y best humor writing, but the aul Runner's Book never bother w matter of significance. No runnel by this book; running is not sat laziness is glorified. The ov nnncniAiicnAPP ?' vv/uov.luuoiivoo ui U1C i Lt 1 LI 1C1 , 1115 J)t his enormous expenses to support 1 never made fun of. One feels sorm book lets the silliness of running g rush to establish its own silliness. The Non-Runner's Book is men and spread out again and again, tli "running" with "non-running." ' from total boredom is that, of coui covers a great deal of activity, descriptions of sleeping techni methods for the terminally lazy d into the merely gross. So regardless of its appearance, Rook is not hlimnr It ic an attorn laugh, much as an especially loud i to make people laugh rather th tempting to stretch a weak idea thi material, the authors have sealed second page, all the big laughs are Perhaps next time Ziegel and produce a book of blank pages Reader's Book. It sounds like son t>e right up their wild and crazy ? I overs mo ieping with the Most definite it * ? me reader nanj ed to interview book is a serie Katmandu and launches the r< vents becomes whirlpool of ; and one-time metaphysical p >r Kelly, god or Vidal has cc ex, even though sexual and phil denial and the is a mystery, sounding board oan the general umanity of the ?: is more than a ?: / ? it is a con- : :* >y Vidal, as he IU WHICH sixjieiy Dhasis is on the t the universe is i-i; rgy and winding :? I / n nearly every ijij I .J \ othing has pur- ijij nimation today: s were a perfect Jo gion. If you are you don't really g: Ai nobody home, J:j: - any god ? fill Si In t ?* V some unusual ^ lid be unfair to ?: Ktensively. I can ?: Madison Square g: ansa, Kalki is t>omb. That is on speak in 3ril 3 is Kalki's the end of the i* III - I HL JVE ^ I $ V V, \ $ h | 8:0(1 / I Russi j I Refrcs ?sstf writing humor are ling craze deserves at the simple act of nd complicated is trary to their ex^ssberger have not land-in-hand in the thors of The Nonith all the messy -s will be offended irized as much as erdeveloped self?nse of superiority, nsnabit: these are ;what cheated; the et away in its mad ely one joke retold le joke of replacing rhe book's escape *se, "non-running" But at times the ques and eating escend past humor The Non-Runner's ipt to make people belch is an attempt lan humor. In atrough even weaker their doom. By the past. Grossberger will called The Nonlothinct f ho t iimul#-! i iviiuu^ itici i VYUU1U r; Dut boring ? alley. re tha >ly, Kalki will leave ging in mid-air. The s of paradoxes that wader's mind into a social evils and uzzles. mpiled an ethical, osophical work that at the same time THE II OF THE R DN I urnalist Agri ithor Investi^ ternational Repn lergy and Laity < g on Ik A A L * I MAN VIOLA" P.M., MON ,.ll H AlIC^ H ^11 UOV JU foments Will B ian annus t^Mk, HBHi^M x n S> ffip *"?* I - aA L_ n uie occult being a high-level satire. the IS KELLY really Kalki, one- )3efore third of the tripart Hindu god shall b< Vishnu? Could be, then again, am maybe not. Read the book and find discerr out, or read the book and don't find am g If that last sentence confuses Middle you, listen to what Kalki has to encj j g )EAS & ISSUES C0MMITTE1 USSELL HOUSE UNIVERSITY UNI PRESENTS ;ator Speaker ; ;?Br?| jsentative of iyT^||| riON.c IM IP w 1 W II 1 I I \ IDAY, APRIL 23, 1979 tallroom ADMISSION PRE e Served Afterwards. >ino mm I am breath. I am spirit. I i supreme lord. I alone was all things, and I exist and I s. No other transcends me. I ternal and not eternal, lible and undiscernible. I rahma, and I am not a. I am without beginning, or end. At the time of the innihilate all worlds." E I ON | a.v. ft*: w AN russeH f>ous? l