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...Ionesco is the playwright of the man who stands alone contemplating the difficulty of human communication, Genet represents the man who has been kicked to the ground and lies screaming. Only it's not a man at all: it's a woman and a homoexual and a convict. For, like the Atheist of the joke who antagonizes his religious friends by saying: "Sure, I believe in an anthropomorphic God: she's a Negro," Genet warns that White Christian Civilization must face up to its outcasts...
...most Russians, as to most of the world, Siberia means desolation and exile. In the old days it seemed a trackless waste infested by brodyagi, branded criminals with slit noses and lashed backs who had escaped from convict prisons and lived by robbery and murder. Siberia was synonymous with space, silence, emptiness and snowbound darkness for 20 hours of every winter's day. The grim land was said to unhinge men's minds: bored Czarist officers in isolated forts broke the monotony by playing Russian roulette. Settlers in the barren north fell victim to "arctic hysteria...
...story of an increasingly violent passion. The avalanche of sensuality starts when a bored wife has an affair with a young clerk on her old husband's household staff, and leads with chilling practicality to a murder, then to another and another; and the story ends in a convict gang en route to Siberia as the wife pulls a rival down to joint death in a river...
...hysterical old man. A cop comes, the thug runs, she is led off to the station. There she panics, locks herself into what turns out to be the station arsenal. But the chief of police is coming for an inspection, and the door must be opened. A convict safecracker is summoned, dressed in a cop's uniform. The chief praises him for his honest face...
...posts stand far out in the desert for the benefit of passing nomads who have taken up soccer. Thieves now get their right hands chopped off in the public square only after the third offense. A doctor first administers a local anesthetic, bandages the stump, and then rushes the convict off by ambulance to a hospital, where, like all Saudis, he gets free medical care. The penalty for adultery is still death by stoning, but there has not been an execution in a decade; and the code prescribes that the victim first be rendered unconscious by drugs. Prince Talal...