BOOK REVIEWS 329 evangelists, witnessing to an elusive "disappeared" man whose arresting presence has nonetheless impressed itself upon their conflicting testimony. At the same time Sulivan's postmodern anticipations challenge the late twentieth-century intellectual to come again into a second naivete. When the novel's drive toward unmasking comes to an end, not a single unquestioned or unmediated truth stands forth but the luminous fact of a man's absurd choice and the miracle that he was moved to make it. What remains beyond that we have known all along from the book's epigraph, taken from the Agamemnon of Aeschylus:The sea is there, and who shall drain its yield? It breeds precious as silver, ever of itself renewed, the purple ooze wherein our garments shall be dipped.
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