Word: cuckolds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year-old professor of humanities on a methadone maintenance program in a prison where he is serving ten years for fratricide. That is just the beginning. There are Farragut's neighbors in cell block F, with names like Chicken No. 2, Bumpo, the Stone, the Cuckold, Ransome and Tennis, who on the outside was Lloyd Haversham Jr., two-time winner of the Spartanburg doubles. His crime was "a clerical error in banking...
...best workers in the penal system are classified as rockets and the slower ones, progressively, as airplanes, locomotives, automobiles, bicycles and lastly, ox carts. Pasqualini recalls one worker who was demoted to the status of a turtle, which is not only slow, but the traditional Chinese symbol of a cuckold. However, pushed a little further, this preoccupation with mechanical efficiency leads to a demand for the man to emulate the machine...
...just as Parnell (with Kitty as intermediary) seemed to be charming Gladstone and the Liberals into acceding to Irish nationalist terms for home rule, Willie O'Shea brought suit for divorce. This, after pretending ignorance for almost ten years while three children were fathered by Parnell. When the cuckold finally brought down his house on himself, he also brought it down on his rival. Parnell's exertions to save his discredited leadership failed miserably, and soon eroded his health. "The most famous adulterer of the century," as a Methodist minister of the time put it, died in Kitty...
...every human creature, artist or otherwise, is largely the product of his environment."--and perhaps because it takes its reality seriously, it is complex enough to end with an ambiguity that verges on bitterness. When the tolerant, savage laughter of the villagers who were all set to ostracize the cuckold a moment before melts into their bows to the audience, it's as though Renoir is passing behond the sentiment of the rest of his movie to a cold-eyed account of it, a little like one of Wallace Stevens's poems, about a diabetic listening to the radio, that...
...Later, during a paranoid inquisition following the revelation of the Popish Plot, his testimony led to the execution of an innocent man accused of being Catholic. And yet another time he and a friend seduced a country gentleman's young wife and then carried her off to London--the cuckold hanged himself. Again, when brought to the attention of the king, "their story atoned for their offence...