![]() ![]() “Bear,” in fact, is quite wonderful, besides being informative.īut what is it with bears? Any zookeeper will tell you that they are capricious, dangerous and mostly nasty. It isn't nearly as silly as most of these books. These facts were not gathered from any of the two dozen children's books with which I am afflicted, but from a new novel by Marian Engel-most emphatically for adults only-called “Bear.” Among other things, “Bear” describes an erotic reationship between a woman and a bear. Bears, like Romantic poets, tend to die shortly after their 30th birthdays. The bear alone gets two constellations of stars, the Great and the Lesser, named after him. According to Finnish legend, the offspring of a woman and a bear is a hero. ![]() The bear has been known as the Dog of God, has been said to possess “the strength of ten men and the sense of twelve.” Some Swiss believe that bears, not Adam and Eve, were our first ancestors. At one time or another, we have used the shoulder blades of bears to mow down grass, the guts to make windowpanes and snow masks, the paws for food, the fat for cosmetics and the penile bone for a coat hook. ![]()
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