Word: bordellos
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...cover-Boon and Lucius reach Memphis. Just four days after that, they are back home in Jefferson again. In a series of outlandishly comic episodes, they have somehow lost the car and won it back, found a stolen horse and raced it, spent an innocent night in a Memphis bordello run by young Miss Reba, the madam who, some 25 years later (Yoknapatawpha time), was to figure in the downfall of Temple Drake in Sanctuary...
...investigators clocked an average traffic run of only 89 cars a day; one of the interchanges gives out on a road serving nothing but a railroad shanty, another leads only to a ranch, while the third leads to some unused mines, a few small ranches and a since-abandoned bordello...
...crisis changes the army from guest to Gestapo. The Mashinka is quarantined; a grimly comic campaign is organized to fight the disease. Drohitzers who might have been exposed are rounded up and lodged in the Silver Hall, the mirror-lined banquet room of the Mashinka's most fashionable bordello. Confinement quickly erases the difference between whore and housewife, who come to share each other's concerns: a prim matron tries a striptease, the prostitutes study cake recipes. Eventually quarantine proves ineffective. The infection rages through Drohitz and the surrounding countryside and Ember, promoted from subaltern to Commissioner...
...makes his way to shore, where he encounters a drug-ravaged hag who turns out to be the girl of his dreams-a former London prostitute named Joan Toast. Shaken by all this, Ebenezer innocently signs away the family property and sees the family manor Maiden, turned into a bordello. By the time he is captured by Indians, Ebenezer finally understands "the crime I stand indicted for, the crime of innocence." He abandons poetry and finishes out his life as a sot-weed factor, or tobacco peddler...
...Balcony. To France's Jean Genet, the world is a great squamous bordello, and his play argues with convincing irony in support of this notion...