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...must injure if not kill the nation." He deplores "the new investigative journalism" for its preoccupation "with the tracking down and punishment of wrongdoers, with giving them their just deserts." He adds: "My own view is that no one should get everything he deserves -the world would become a charnel house...
...most idyllic small-boat harbors and vacation spots in the eastern Mediterranean. But last week, reported TIME Correspondent William Marmon after a revisit to the place where he had vacationed in the past and more recently hunkered down during the Turkish invasion, Kyrenia was like a charnel house. Bloated human bodies rotted in back alleys; livestock and chickens were dying of starvation; meats and produce were putrefying in the summer sun because shelling and gunfire had cut off electricity. From a happy harbor Kyrenia had disintegrated into a place where 700 terrified Greek Cypriot refugees were locked up in Castellis...
...Brown, the protagonist of Mark Harris' new novel, is a man who cannot even bring himself to exterminate a neighbor's annoying dog. Yet his mind is a charnel house of potential victims, executed because he thinks nearly everyone around him helped send his mistress's son to death in Viet Nam. Incurably infected by the anger and violence of the past decade, Brown fires off anonymous and threatening letters to presidents, neighbors, even chance acquaintances who displease...
...addition to this anatomical legacy, Clementine gets Charnel Castle, a moldering shambles with a bottomless wine cellar. It is a timeless madhouse, swarming with unpaid servants and port-guzzling visitors. Its bedrooms are equipped with convenient women of various shapes and attributes. Rose, for instance, has webbed feet...
...life. The book does not have much meaning, only an animal warmth, at once grotesque and touching. Donleavy seems to be saying that this warmth is the only thing about which we can be certain. "To make the stars bark" is his sole justification for the antics at Charnel Castle. Molecules of cooling human scent spreading thinner and thinner through the heavens according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics? It would seem so-in Donleavy's world at least, where man is the ultimate agent of disorder...