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...with roughly the same material: life, odd and otherwise, in small towns of the rural South. Given this common starting point, comparisons of the three were probably inevitable, but they also were, and remain, misleading. Each looked at the South in a different way. Faulkner saw the tailings and butt ends of a long tragic myth; O'Connor perceived a gallery of grotesques testing the limits of God's mercy to man. Welty concentrated instead on ordinary people, on "the thing that makes them what they are in themselves, their secret life, their memory of the past, their...
...house with him near the University of Southern California campus, Meeker was chatting with her about his girlfriend, Linda Jason, 21, of Fresno. He casually plucked from the wall over his bed a short-barreled .410 gauge shotgun. Sitting with legs folded in the lotus position, Meeker rested the butt of the gun on his ankles, pointed the barrel at his face and began loading and unloading a shell...
...House they call him "Butt-fucker" because he does all the dirty work. He's the guy they turn to when a hot water pipe bursts in the gameroom at 2 a.m. or when the Toast-R-Oven short-circuits the entire first floor. When they had a Hawaiian party and didn't know what to do with all the sand, he figured out a way to truck it down the block to a tiny tributary of the Charles. To this day, Butt-fucker's Beach lies invitingly under the overpass, at the intersection of Beacon Street and Charles Gate...
Last Saturday was Butt-fucker's birthday. Everyone was chasing him around the House. "C'mon Butt-fucker," they screeched, "time for your BIRTHday present..." Eventually he tired, and they caught him, appropriately down near the boiler room. With well-practiced teamwork, five of them grabbed him like a cord of firewood and hustled him out into the middle of Beacon Street, where he received two rounds of boisterous "Happy Birthday" and 21 solid whacks from an official House paddling board. Laughing, they filed back inside to shower down for another Saturday night formal dinner at an MIT fraternity...
...pours acid over his hands. An NBC version of That's Incredible!, called Games People Play, has sent crews around the country to film folks engaged in such competitions as women's arm wrestling and belly bucking, in which a pair of beefy brawlers try to butt each other out of a ring. Like That's Incredible!, Games invariably winds up with a harrowing stunt designed to stir even the most hardened disaster freaks...