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Pets? Poet Gavin Maxwell, grandson of famed Natural Historian Sir Herbert Maxwell, has investigated them all: a lemur, a bush baby, a wildcat, a rail, five wild geese, a dozen tropical birds, a goat that jumped on the kitchen table, and a cow that strolled upstairs one day and almost gave birth on the landing. Otters, he proclaims in this lyric celebration of the beast he loved the best and of the wild Scottish coast they romped along together, are the greatest...
Almost anything Mij got his paws on he put in his mouth. He once chewed up a razor blade in his powerful, crab-cracking jaws, seemed to suffer no ill effects. In the country he liked to sneak up behind a cow, take a snap at her tail and sit grinning as she furiously kicked up her heels. He also displayed a peculiar passion for nipping every ear lobe that came within his appallingly elastic range. And once, when Maxwell tried to take an eel away from him, Mij effortlessly bit clean through his hand. "He let go almost...
...take garbage and make it acceptable to people in the street," Tarashinsky explains. "We take a nylon parachute and dissect it just like a butcher takes a cow apart. We use it all." In late 1959, Tarashinsky bought 200,000 surplus ammunition cans from the Army for 12? apiece. He found few takers until he discovered that the handles tilted to make an excellent shoe rest, so he peddled them as shoeshine stands, sold 196,000 to one customer for 20? apiece. "I'm known as the king of the ammo cans," says Tarashinsky...
This common type of aggressive intellectual tease is new to Griff, but he is happily prepared to be teased-until she goes too far. In a lecture, "Religion or Eroticism," Lydia indulges in pseudo-Freudian persiflage on all Griff's favorite hymns. "Bloody blasphemous cow," he thinks, and tells her off in strong valley language. It is a compelling story so far-both gay and dismal. But Novelist Gallic will not let Griff welsh on his Welsh-ness : she wants him to win. In the end, the stage seems set for a true marriage of mathematics and letters...
Parkinson is a man more grotesquely awful than the lepers, given to misquoting tag lines from the great English anthology poets, and he is dead set on making Querry into another Albert Schweitzer, a sacred cow sanctified by journalism. With facts dug up from the newspaper morgue, involving the suicide of Querry's mistress, the correspondent is determined that his own Parkinson's Law ("A truth is a truth insofar as it is believed") will override the private legislation in Querry's dead soul...