Dare-devil "Arctic Author"
Manfred Rosenthal a verse/prose/philosophical/political/theological/paranoid, bilingual (English & German), swastika-laced book-length diatribe written by an otherwise unknown German-Canadian Manitoban who worked on the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line on the Arctic Circle, at a time when the A-Bomb was going to drop any second & guys like him were supposed to be the first ones to know that, "THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING!, THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING!" & while up there seemingly developed Isolation Syndrome (Cabin Fever, with psychotic features).
(from the dust jacket)-
ON TOP OF THE WORLD, how ever rough-LONG TERM VISIT with the GREAT JEHOVAH ABOVE: In THY presence O God, my Faith looks up to THEE . . . though earthly bound, assured of a 'SOUL SET FREE' the mystified Mortal, in . . . the Twilight of Eternity! Surely, down below-as we certainly do know . . . this world has treacherous Fjords and solid Mountains-- . . . that's why for alert, COOL Prospectors, like Solitude-seeking, blessed Moses AGLOW . . . there are life-lines Divine, TO ETERNAL Fountains!! Like Yukon Crash-grounded . . . 7 times 7 makes 49-Ralph & Helen, was it FATE, or test of Faith divine?? Included also, some . . . Distant Early Warning Echoes . . . of Northern Tragic, RCMP.-Conquest, Eskimo Strife; The EMPTY Hangar: Anticipated J.F.K. Never to arrive!! or Greenland forced landing-at USAB. distant from home . . . Serene little chapel: Lonely location, but NEVER Alone!! To tell you-of High Velocity Elements, low ceilings, delayed Flights; Crystal Lagoons, Jumbo-Swans (icebergs) Northern Lights; Of Arctic Star Parties, via MacArthur's private plane fog diverted . . . and many-chickens roasted IN VAIN! or of Airport-farewells, tears shed in late regret, . . . till we meet Again-of Northern Female Appreciation in "MAN'S DOMAIN": "Honey, only ONCE MORE do we have to part . . . though your Southern Sadness tends to break my now HAPPY HEART!" Back at my favorite, lonely little Outpost . . . perma frozen way up North, barren, treeless Canada-way; where Polar bears are running wild, lonely wolves howl-and little Arctic Foxes play. Modern men up there are hardy, . . . as Isolated Northmen merciless will have to be-keeping their round-the-clock "PERMA RADAR VIGIL" that "OUR" Western world still-and hopefully ALWAYS might remain "STRONG & FREE'!!
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