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That scenario might be a cautionary account of the fall of New York after default. In fact, it is the history of a pre-Columbian city called Teotihuacan (the Aztecs' word for "the place the gods call home"), once a metropolis of as many as 200,000 inhabitants 33 miles northeast of present-day Mexico City. Archaeologists long regarded the city -famed for its Pyramids of the Moon and the Sun and avenue-like Street of the Dead-as a ceremonial center inhabited largely by priests and their retainers. Now, new discoveries suggest that between...
Sure it is, and back Moseby goes to Florida for a brutal confrontation with what amounts to a convention of practically every character actor he has up to now encountered in the movie, all of whom have been engaged in an elaborate plot to smuggle hot pre-Columbian art into the U.S. The kid, of course, was killed because she knew too much, and Moseby very nearly catches it when he achieves the same state of knowledgeability. His evasion of this fate, while lying wounded on the deck of a fishing boat, under attack from a maniacally persistent baddie possessed...
...CONNOISSEUR by Evan S. Council Jr. A businessman descends into the joys of collecting pre-Columbian art and gradually loses himself to his possessions...
With declarative simplicity, The Connoisseur traces Muhlbach's plunge into a world where everyone is "into" some sort of object: wicker baskets, pre-Columbian bowls, Oriental sculptures, early American leg irons. His new acquaintances are sharks, nuzzling through dealers' galleries, circling fiercely at auctions. With cold passion, they study the artifacts of vanquished people; blankly, they watch for signs of ignorance or weakness in competitors, especially newcomers like Muhlbach. Having acquired a little knowledge, he quickly obliges them. He successfully bids on what he takes to be an Olmec jade mask, realizing only as the hammer falls that...
Pangs of Greed. This small novel leaves Muhlbach dangling between pleasure and despair. Packed with pre-Columbian arcana (Connell himself is a collector), it conveys the joyous release that absorption in a stern hobby can bring. Something alien has penetrated Muhlbach's life and opened vistas he can never exhaust. Not certain whether his response is to beauty or authenticity, Muhlbach nonetheless responds. Yet he is aware of some disquieting side effects: increasing pangs of greed for what he can appreciate but not afford, a habit of judging people by their acquisitions -and of being judged and found wanting...