Word: bleeds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tormenting a little Negro girl in his class. His assumption is that when the legal and extra-legal barriers to communication between races are hewn down, people will begin to see that they're all brothers under the skin, that the same things make them laugh and cry and bleed. Agape will take over. Then Americans may know the "majestic heights of being obedient to the unenforceable...
With nothing real to worry about, Rock starts worrying about himself. Every time his gums bleed he imagines hemophilia. Every little freckle has a meaning all its own: cancer! One day he feels some minor heartburn, suspects a major heart attack, rushes off to consult his best friend and neighbor (Tony Randall...
...raising money that some laymen complain he thinks of nothing else. His capacity for work especially astonishes his doctor, since he suffers from asthma, emphysema, ulcers and migraine headaches, has had operations to remove a cancerous kidney and the prostate gland. He eats lightly ("I have to-I bleed"), sleeps with an oxygen tank beside his bed. "It is the wolf that keeps me on the go," he explains, "particularly the wolf at someone else's door...
...with other vital centers, is fundamentally concerned with the heart, and in Iguana he sometimes writes about it beautifully. His characters are contraptions and their lives are theatrical tropes, but when they say what they feel, what hurts them and what they long for, they come suddenly alive and bleeding. Strange and disturbing to see contraptions bleed...
...bleed my bones, their marrow to bestow