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...misleading. He is peaceful to the point of passivity. Most of Skid Row's crime statistics are due either to zealous police sweeping public drunks off the pavement, or to "hawks"-the area's name for predators who come in from the outside, frequently to relieve a drunkard of his freshly cashed welfare check. His lengthy arrest record, says Sociologist Wallace, can actually be construed as "a fairly stable adaptation [to] a society that is willing to support him under specified conditions...
Arriving at Turpin's home in a storm, Mandeville, an obvious drunkard and possible psychotic, demands that Turpin circumcise Mandeville's golden retriever. The subsequent brutal murder of the dog is but the beginning of a series of bizarre deaths in which Turpin naturally becomes entrapped. Verbally shanghaied aboard an expensive yacht, Turpin finds himself in Raceport, Long Island, where he grapples with a girl who promptly chokes to death on a wad of chewing gum. Nelson Falorp, wealthy owner of the yacht, has a heart attack in the bathroom of a wharf restaurant, and Turpin becomes responsible...
...meningitis at 24, "that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunderstroke like that and live." He was, says Kaplan, obsessed with "the rustle and chink and heft of money." He kept a private hate list and added names to it all his years. "A liar, a thief, a drunkard, a traitor, a filthy-minded and salacious slut," he recorded, at 74, of a secretary fallen from his grace. The distinguished fared no better: he called Whitelaw Reid, owner of the New York Tribune, "a skunk, a eunuch, a missing link...
...masterpiece called Under the Volcano, which can be read as a novel but understood only as a parable of the pit. "William James if not Freud," he wrote in a letter to his British publisher, "would certainly agree with me when I say that the agonies of the drunkard find their most accurate poetic analogue in the agonies of the mystic who has abused his powers...
Each with its own formal geometry, patterns proliferated with a folkloric poetry all their own: Triple Irish Chain, Windmill, Wild-Goose Chase, Princess Feather, the Drunkard's Path. Some drew from the Bible, such as Rose of Sharon, Star of Bethlehem, or Jacob's Ladder. Others were celebrations of American history: Whig's Defeat, Eagles and Stars, and red, white and blue flag patterns. Others incorporated Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs or laurel leaves, in recognition of Napoleon's neoclassic symbol of glory. Superstitious quilt makers often spoiled the symmetry deliberately in order not to imitate...