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Lancelot's pursuit of what he calls "the Unholy Grail" leads him to commit several murders and arson. He, in turn, is committed to a New Orleans insane asylum, where he has one room with a view of Lafayette Cemetery. There he tells his story to a friend who has become a Catholic priest. But Lancelot's confession is anything but repentant. It is both a funny and a scarifying jeremiad on the modern...
...plan is a patchwork of medieval chivalry, Confederate rhetoric and shoot-'em-up justice. He will go away with the girl in the next room - a patient in the asylum who has been gang-raped into insensibility. In Lancelot's view, this outrage has purified her of every indulgence he hates in the modern world. Together they will be the new Adam and Eve, dedicated to "a stern code, a gentleness toward women and an intolerance of swinishness...
...There is an extent to which, when you're playing with such large stakes, a three percent chance of success is a good one. Anyway, it's better tilting at windmills than writing about them. If you're going to an insane asylum, you don't want crazy doctors," Fisher added...
...passengers understood they could disembark if they chose. Once in Havana harbor, however, the Jews were not allowed off the ship. Their landing permits had been deliberately scrambled by the Cuban government in league with the Nazis, who wanted the ship to sail from port to port searching for asylum. The St. Louis would then become a diplomatic liability, an embarrassment, and would be an active demonstration, according to the Nazis, of what a "problem" the Jews were. This squalid footnote to the Holocaust raises some curious questions-prominent among them is why President Franklin Roosevelt turned the St. Louis...
LINDA RONSTADT: HASTEN DOWN THE WIND (Asylum). Country pop's top woman vocalist swings from primal blues to sunny Mexicali rock...