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"He is Seymour Levin, 30, son of a thief and late alcoholic, who leaves the New York jungle newly bearded and bound for new horizons in the democratic American West. Specifically, he joins the English department in Marathon, Cascadia (Corvallis, Oregon?), where forestry, fishing, agriculture and athletics comprise the Great Ideas of Western Man."