Word: cannibalisme
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LIKE A LITERARY KRONOS, John Barth has stuffed each of his fictional offspring down his maw and let forth an echoing belch of a novel. The noise deafens; Barth blushes. With reason--many an atrocity litters Letters's past, including the authorial analogues of incest, cannibalism and flagellation. But what...
To start off, they shortened from two years to just four months the time that it usually takes females to mate, lay eggs and hatch their young. How? By cleverly manipulating water temperatures and light exposures within the blockhouses, so the lobsters were duped into thinking they had passed through...
On the physical level, the trial is concerned with who ate whom when. Even in cannibalism a pecking order is revealed. No particular stigma seems to be attached to having eaten two loyal Indian guides. Keseberg, being a German, is supposed to have acted out of depravity, while the native...
Still, when Helms sounds off with, "Your tax dollars are being used to teach our children cannibalism, wife swapping and the murder of infants," the message is clear, even if voters know the rhetoric is exaggerated. What isn't clear to many North Carolinians is the irony of an attack...
In his dark office, Chiang sat in his high-backed chair, listening to me with visible distaste because his meddling sister-m-law insisted he had to. I talked of the dying; then of the taxes; then of the extortions. It was obvious he did not know what was going...