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...fact, to judge from Sironia, Texas in those days must have been a dang sight wilder than even now. In the lives of Cooper's 30-odd major characters, there occur a flood, several murders and suicides, and a castration party. One whorehouse burns down, one Negro is burned alive, one changeling is introduced into a childbed...
Goums and French Foreign Legion troops are holding the outpost of Dong-dang. The Goums-bearded, bemedaled, fierce-eyed North African troops-are savage, close-quarter fighters whose physical courage seems to have no limits. Many of the legionnaires are German-lean, hard-mouthed, blond men in white kepis, their pockets stuffed with grenades. Among them are veterans of Rommel's Afrika Korps. I asked Dupuis how he got on with them...
...Titus Moody (Parker Fennelly) is a whey-voiced, ding-this-and-dang-that farmer with a wit hot off the general-store stove. Is his wife happy? "I don't pry into her business none." Titus' farm is "somethin' like Communism. Nobody's got nothin', but everybody's workin'." Does he like the radio? "I don't hold with furniture that talks." Titus is anemic. If cut, he will not bleed; the wound will only "hiss and pucker." Says Allen: "Titus will be getting better when the other characters have dried...
...More than 10% of the island's male citizens were musicians. Every night the little villages rang with the crash of cymbals and the brassy clang of gongs. (The five tones of the Balinese musical scale are represented by the syllables ding, dong, déng, doong and dang...
...against bovine tuberculosis. There was only one cure for it : killing all cattle who had it. John Mohler traipsed across the land, pleading with farmers to allow tuberculin tests ; ruthlessly ordering the cattle shot when the tests were positive. In those days U.S. farmers resented Federal interference heartily; no dang Gov'ment man was going to shoot their cows...