Word: crab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...words and reasons, he envies the intensity with which Mandy perceives the world nonverbally through her four acute senses. Fascinated by attentiveness for its own sake, he frees himself for a time by tasting and testing along with her. Ink tastes like "charred toenail," bark is like vulcanized crab meat, and leather, "a taste here not of the meat or the fat next to the hide but of the fur once outside it and of seaweed iodine...
According to Melville there are fastfish and loosefish. I divide them up less metaphysically into ghastlyfish, indolentfish, tediousfish, and gloryfish. Then there are the crabs. The horseshoe crab, which has a hysterically catalytic effect on me, perversely flipped over on its back just as we reached him. I clutched my sides and staggered away. I would rather have fought a million basilisks, or Spiro Agnew, than seen this ghastly sea spider. Searching for air, we came into the Harbor Room, a pleasant glass corner suspended over the outside water. An Italian lady turned to her son, gestured toward...
Depicting the commuter as a harassed, crab-grassed hypocrite is the equivalent of the 19th century view of moral wastrels disporting in the wicked city. There is indeed a crack in the picture window, but Loving demonstrates that if it obscures the vision of those looking out, it is far more distorting to smug voyeurs peering...