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...fair example of Wiley's bricolage, with its rusty pickax snagged, like an unwanted anchor, on a knotted line from an improvised fishing pole, its ragged sheet of ox hide, its confusingly labeled ("Fresh Bait," "Nietzsche") objects perched on a raw wood shelf. They can only be decoded in terms of Wiley's own convoluted memories, but their point has more to do with a remark of Marcel Duchamp, whom Wiley vastly admires: "There is no solution because there is no problem." This openness and tolerance toward objects and meanings is the essential subject of Wiley...
...rare Vietnamese mole. On another occasion, a California biologist set out for a remote and desolate island off Southern California, which Hsu had heard was the only habitat of a certain rodent. The biologist's boat sank, and he was marooned for three days. He fed himself on bait he had brought for the rodents...
Incredible Cunning. Another way to kill rats is to return to the old poisons. With an almost incredible cunning, though, some rats have learned to let one member of the pack taste the bait. If he dies immediately, the food is ignored...
However, George Jackson didn't bite the bait. He stayed at Tracy less than nine months before being transferred back to San Quentin in November of 1962 because he was "in need of control...
...only did Jackson not take the bait, he now seemed to hold the offer of it in contempt. Officials reported that Jackson came back to San Quentin with a "changed attitude." Precisely what this change in attitude entailed is difficult to say. Jackson's prison record shows an escalation in the severity of the violations with which he was now being charged. According to the record, Jackson, who was not a small man, was beginning to throw his weight around...