Word: abattoir
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Especially if the subject is talking about dating a serial killer or building a friendlier abattoir. Morris is drawn to the Frankensteinian: inventors, self-styled scientists and folks on weird quests of self-discovery. They can be creepy, like Kent, but their stories are moving too. Take Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who empathizes with animals because she thinks in images, which, she contends, is how they think as well. She invented the "stairway to heaven," a slaughterhouse design that uses optical illusions to lead cattle calmly to their death, yet has a bond with the beasts born...
...them in a meat grinder," said Eugene Young, who usually fishes the waters for pollock, hake and cod in September. "You had to go awfully slow, because if someone was in the water, you didn't want to run them over." His image of an abattoir was apt. "There was not one bit of hope. Someone's belly here. Intestines over there." Despite the comfort of cove legend, out of the wreck of Swissair Flight 111 came not even one survivor from the 229 people onboard...
...Curtis LeMay, the man who took charge of the B-29 bombings of Japan, once said, "I'll tell you what war is about. You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough, they stop fighting." Eugene Sledge, then an 18-year-old Marine, remembered the abattoir of the Pacific this way in his memoirs: "I felt sickened to the depths of my soul. I asked God 'Why, why, why?' ... I had tasted the bitterest essence of the war ... and it filled me with disgust...
...femme fatale that Jean-Luc Godard based on an American paperback novel. But where Godard used pulp fiction as an excuse to discuss the philosophy of the boulevards and the boudoir, Tarantino is true to the genre's moral muscularity; he's interested in the philosophy of the abattoir. His tough guys chat about life's iniquities and inequities, about hamburgers, the Bible, the ethics of foot massage, the perfidy of women...
...very sites designated for wildlife's preservation are becoming its abattoir, almost as if someone had let a serial killer into Noah's ark. Poachers haunt nearly half of America's 366 park areas, supplying animal parts to illegal traffickers who operate in at least 17 states. They supply bear paws as culinary delicacies and bear gallbladders as medicinal ingredients. Rare butterflies are netted for collectors around the world. Deer are decapitated to decorate homes. The illegal killing of animals is a $200 million-a-year business, with as much as $100 million of that amount for medicinal purposes...