Word: earthworm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week and then stomp on him the next? What a thing to do to a guy!...And he had just taken it. He had stood there, not saying a word, taking it. He had stood there, not saying a word, taking it. She had squished him like some earthworm in the garden, and he had just taken...
...MARTIN!! YOU'RE A FUCKING EARTHWORM...
...soon as Betty left, Martin's head began to reel again. Everything became distorted; he fell down four times just walking back to his room. He thought he was going carzy, for now he was having one of his dreams in the daytime. He was an earthworm, burrowing through a telephone cord into the receiver; Betty was in the other part of the telephone, and he was getting closer and closer to the receiver there, and something was about to happen--but before it could, he would see pictures, wildly distorted, of his old biology book's photographs...
...plot is silly-surreal. A white U.S. she wolf named Beclch (Sharon Gans) becomes the vampire queen of an African tribe. She is a voracious, paganly sadistic earth mother; her husband (Jerome Dempsey) is an earthworm. To secure her rise to power, she coaxes him into contracting elephantiasis, which the natives regard as a symbol of regal divinity. He is a king in name and pain only, as she promptly betrays him with a kind of virility totem, a bare-torsoed American from Marlbrando country. Deserted by this lover at play's end, the white queen faces beheading...
...Just as we would forgive the earthworm for not knowing that the roots, trunk and leaves of the oak tree are really one entity, so must we forgive Bishop Pike if he cannot see that Father, Son and Holy Spirit are really one. Please, no trial. The bishop is neither heretic nor prophet-simply out of his depth...