Word: barked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs...
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs...
...must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like...
FOLLIES (120). A work of art, rich, various, strange, hauntingly compelling. To float through time in the fragile, foolish bark of the self, and see life through the bifocal lenses of 20 and 50 simultaneously-that is the amazing achievement of this Proustian musical...
...numerous fornications that The Onion Eaters generates its odd life. The book does not have much meaning, only an animal warmth, at once grotesque and touching. Donleavy seems to be saying that this warmth is the only thing about which we can be certain. "To make the stars bark" is his sole justification for the antics at Charnel Castle. Molecules of cooling human scent spreading thinner and thinner through the heavens according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics? It would seem so-in Donleavy's world at least, where man is the ultimate agent of disorder...