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Jail Break!
Ah, the joys of village life. When something
untoward occurs in a village or small town, everyone
knows someone involved one way or the other. This
is a composite story.
Well, it seems someone broke into the Wayfarer
the other night. It didn’t seem to be a professional
job, a crowbar to the front door, liquor taken. The
M.O. of a healthy young drunk. The police were
called, people were questioned, the investigation
proceeded. The suspect was elusive The battle of
wit’s was on, would the highly trained, equipped
and paid guardians of law and order be able to out
think this master of surprise and simplicity, would
his judgment be impaired by the liquor he stole?
How long would it last? Sure enough, as the cliché
would have it; the alleged perpetrator returned to the
scene of the crime. He was under a table, again in
the Wayfarer, again having popped the front door
and after drinking serious liquor and munching
cinnamon rolls, decided to have a nap.. Cannon
Beach’s finest were notified by the morning clean-up
crew that the door was open... again. They jumped
in their video equipped vehicles, drove two blocks
and took the alleged perpetrator into custody,
confiscating his shoes, and incarcerated him in the
local lock-up. A small empty ventilated storage
closet like place. Then, they did lunch. The
aforementioned young drunk, having regained what
there was of his wits, promptly dismantled the vent
system enough to build a tool, popped the door of
his cell and hit the beach. Barefoot boy with cheek
comes to mind. Returning from their repast our
finest sensed something amiss, and sounded the
general alarm, bringing 57 varieties of peace officers
to the village for the man hunt. Finally, through
shrewd detective work, the fugitive was found,
again, asleep, on the beach, recaptured and shipped
off to Astoria where they have guys that kind of keep
an eye on the captives, even during lunch. Case
closed. Cool, huh?
W ell......unless you happen to be the FBI who’s
job it is to investigate all jail breaks. They are
expected soon. So, if you see some suits with wires
in their ears wandering the village, it’s just your tax
dollars at work, don’t make any sudden moves, and
take a cop to lunch.
Editorial
Now & Then
Now that the initial glow of being back in print has
dimmed a little, and the work is once again required,
a thought occurred. We have a strange lack of
reviews in the Edge. Perhaps it is that most reviews
we arc used to reading in the media are written by the
publicist for the book, movie, TV show, or some
lobbyist for the cause of the month. The
aforementioned thought was to write some book
reviews of ‘used’ books, old movies, stuff that we
might have missed. . We thought it would be nice if
our readers/writers would tell us the story of a book
that they liked and don’t think anyone one else ever
read. Or a movie or whatever. Don’t be too
eloquent, we w ill probably only be printing the titles,
authors, etc., and maybe a little of why it is
recommended.
Of course, if you insist on writing a concise,
amusing, compelling story with no typo’s, we would
be force to print it.
So, read any good books lately?
We’ll start with a small story.
We were sitting in the bookstore a while back
when a couple in their late fifties, early sixties came
in and began to browse, the gentleman commented
on the classical music playing on the old turntable.
We allowed as how classical music and books seem
to work well together. The conversation then, not
suprisingly, led to books and writers, and it was a
pleasant intelligent sharing of information and
emotions. The woman then mentioned that “George,
here writes.” The gentleman explained that he had
had a few things published, a play that he turned into
a novel, and a few mysteries. “Really,” we gushed,
having a well know' weakness for writers, and an
addiction to mysteries, ’’what kind of mysteries?”
“Historical, I guess,” he said, ”my detective is
Leonardo da Vinci ”
Well, George Herman, who lives in Portland,
Oregon, brought me a copy of his first book,
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“Carnival of Saints”. It takes place in Italy in the
1400’s, the times of the Borgia Pope’s, the Medici,
Machiavelli, and yes Leonardo da Vinci. It was also
the begining time for what later became popular
theater, the commedia dell’arte. Theatre at that time
was, of course the province of the courts, the
church, or the patrons of the new merchant class.
The hard life of the peasant held little intellectual
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stimulation or entertainment. Until companies of
Breads - Pastries
displaced but talented entertainers began to perform
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in the streets, and move from village to town to
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cities, doing broad bawdy parodies and the usual
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juggling and acrobatics. Mr. Herman who is a
student as well as a teacher of theater, lovingly and
irreverently tells the history of his craft with a cast of
characters that you leam to love. The next two
books, Mr. Herman dropped off at the store (signed
first editions both, an author who understands a
ubscription orm
bookman) bring the Commedia dell’arte back to the
courts and conspiracy as well as introducing Niccolo
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a dwarf with a photographic memory who is
assigned to the Maestro Leonardo to teach the artist
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Latin. Yes, you get a good bit of delicious history
with your mystery. Debauchery, gluttony, greed,
envy, and a bunch of 15th century Merry pranksters
wisecracking their way in and out of trouble, as
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that don’t alw'ays lead to Rome. Leonardo’s
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detective work includes using his studies in anatomy
to reconstruct a face onto a skull of a murdered man.
The first volume “Carnival of Saints” was
published in Feb. 1994 by Ballantine Books ISBN
0-345-38150-5, “A Comedy of Murders” was first
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published by Carroll & Graff in July 1994 ISBN 0-
7867-0064-5, and “The Tears of the Madonna” was
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7867-0243-5. These books are under that “Good
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