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...ROGER CASEMENT by BRIAN INGLIS 448 pages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
...extraordinary number of people who had known or met him. Sir Roger Casement seemed the Edwardian era's parfit gentil knight. Handsome, beguiling, dedicated and quixotic, he spent his life, fragile health and meager income tilting not against windmills but against millstones: the brutal burdens loaded on colonialized peoples by their self-styled civilizers, not least upon his beloved Ireland. As far as his abilities were concerned, Casement was the kind of man who in other times and circumstances might have been an explorer, poet, or U.N. Secretary-General. As it turned out, this proud and eventually demented Irish...
...balanced and meticulously researched biography, Dublin-born journalist Brian Inglis traces the Sophoclean confluence of events and experiences that led Casement to fame, obloquy and the gallows as yet another martyr for Irish freedom. How high Casement rates in that mad hierarchy depends on how history will eventually assess the shadowed side of his nature. Casement was a rapacious homosexual, a fact that was never suspected until his arrest in 1916, when Scotland Yard seized his private papers. Its most notable find was the so-called "black diaries" which Casement supporters erroneously denounced as forgeries. The diaries document his obsession...
...skull of the ape, named Aegyptopithecus zeuxis (for "linking Egyptian ape"), was found protruding from rock during a 1966 Yale expedition to the Fayum desert. But it was not until the specimen had been returned to Yale and extracted from its rock casement that Simons realized that it was an un usually complete skull of a primate, lacking only portions of its top and bottom and four incisor teeth. "Not only is the skull some eight to ten million years older than any other fossils related to man," Simons said, "but it is better preserved than any that are older...
...When Casement was found guilty, a clamor rose from Ireland, the U.S. and even Britain that he be reprieved. But the prosecution had a weapon of great power: the "black diaries" said to have been found in a trunk Casement left behind in his old London lodgings...