Word: asp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene is complete without its obligatory corpses: various Old Massas die from fire, asp and poison (stomach "exploding like an infernal machine"). Sensuality, in turn, has an almost murderous force. Always there are the users and the used. Slave caravans seem to march across the top of every page like an endless frieze...
...difficulty is not so much that Drury has borrowed Little Orphan Annie's politics, but that he did not sign up Punjab, the Asp and Sandy, too. Given a day or two to learn their lines, they could have substituted with much improvement in subtlety of characterization for the cereal-box astronauts and Comsymp Eastern Establishment journalists who snooze about Drury's stage. An astronaut at play: "There are astronauts," he said, "and sometimes there are astronaughties...
Entries: a gopher named Broke, a crow named Magnon, a donkey named Hodey, and another donkey (German) named Shane, a rabbit named Transit, a horse named Greeley, a sparrow called Agnew, an asp named Pidistra, an aardvark called A-million-miles-for-one-of-your-smiles. Also, reversing the order, a rat named Frank Lloyd, a collie named Melon, a pair of egrets called Miss Otis. Any more of that from the Caen guru, and his readers will all be like a raven named Stark...