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"Your Fah Nefah Ne-face" is every bit as distorted, and openly comical, as its title. Johnnie and Sallie Collins, a brother and sister, play outrageous tricks on a world with a rigid sense of propriety. They exploit sentimentality by feigning an accidental meeting under the clock at the Biltmore...
Weeks pass. K. meets "the prison chaplain," who tells him an orphic tale about a man who begs admittance at the door of the Law but is refused. "Try to get in if you wish," the guard invites him, "but note that I am powerful.'' Intimidated, the man...
K. himself dies soon afterward. Two fat strangers come calling and take him to a quarry at the edge of town. In the book one of them strangles him while the other drives a knife into his heart and twists it twice-"Like a dog!" K. says as he dies...
Clearly this story has its gruesome elements, and Thomas Babe has appropriated them in order, it appears, to account for the behavior of Walter and Griselda. "On his lust present was al his thoght," Chaucer writes of the Lord (meaning his immediate pleasure or wish), and speaks of his "merveillous...
When eventually Rama takes off for Europe to become a "holy vagabond," he has difficulty explaining himself to Europeans, let alone the Europeans to himself. But Rama does his best to embrace and smother with love the barbarous tribes of Paris, and records an impulse to lead a cow up...