Word: cultist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...novel of British working-class life, but its overt socialist propaganda and its covert hints of dark doings in sex and some sort of spiritualism make it the queerest mixture of the publishing season-a marriage of those diverse London oddballs, Karl Marx and Joanna Southcott, the hysteric cultist who died in 1814 after announcing that she would give birth to a second Prince of Peace...
...worst, Cloportes is a squashy but grimly amusing study of insect behavior. At best, it pins down some first-rate talent. France's Singing Idol Charles Aznavour wryly impersonates a crook-turned-cultist whose swami act is last seen floating in the Seine, and Veteran Actress Françhise Rosay rabbets in some surprises as a hardened crone who rents out high-powered burglary tools by the hour. Any doubt that the female is the deadlier of the species is dispelled by shapely Irina Demick, who shows up rather late as an art gallery receptionist all abustle with...
...back together higgledy-piggledy before turning it in to his publishers. Result: a hallucinatory little nonbook of babble whose most distinguishing feature is a preoccupation with sodomy and the dubious joys thereof. Burroughs apologists insist that there are plot and Profound Meaning imbedded in the book, but only a cultist will find them...
Life's Losers. What was bad for the well-adjusted research psychiatrist can be infinitely worse for the cultist. "The trouble with uncontrolled use," says Dr. Cohen, "is that the people attracted to LSD may be the very ones who have the most trouble with it. They are life's losers-dissatisfied, restless people, afflicted with problems they can't handle. A lot of them wallow in self-pity and denigrate those who have made it in the 'square' world. They see Nirvana in LSD, with its perceptual wonders, the intensity, luminosity and throbbing...
...with Owegbe commands, initiates were ushered through a grisly ritual, cut three times on the cheek or chest, then made to eat the heart of a cockerel and down a loathsome liquid potion brewed from kola nuts and wine and the blood, hair, finger and toenails of a dead cultist. They finally bound themselves to Owegbe with 24 oaths, each ending with a chilling refrain: "If I refuse . . . let Owegbe make juju...