Paul Bowles takes the title of this novel from Macbeth.īowles is impressed with the the succinctness and brutality of those four words. Tangier is a city in flux, and those who are there are not as interested in sharing the truth as they are in acquiring the truth. In exasperation at one point, he says: ”Can’t anyone in this town tell the truth?” This betrays his own naïveté and inability to adjust to the environment he has thrust himself into. Dyar has plenty of time to meet the cast of characters hanging out in Tangier, all seemingly with their own agendas. He seems to just want to keep Dyar on a string in case he needs him for something. Wilcox is his boss in Tangier, but as far as Dyar can tell, he really doesn’t have a job for him. When a chance comes to take an odd job in Tangier, he leaves the bank, leaves New York, in the hope that he will finally start to feel something. Nelson Dyar is desperate to escape that wire cage he’s been working in for the past few years. To be able to believe fully in the reality of the circumstances in which a man finds himself, he must feel that they bear some relation, however distant, to other situations he has known.” ”With each day as it passed Dyar had been feeling a little further from the world it was inevitable that at some point he should make a voluntary effort to put himself back in the middle of it again.
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