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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
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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
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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
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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
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Earhart. All in k<
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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
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lation of earth.
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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
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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;
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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:
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some unusual ^
lid be unfair to ?:
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ansa, Kalki is
t>omb. That is on speak in
3ril 3 is Kalki's
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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
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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
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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
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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."
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