Word: eunuch
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Said: "We had lots of servants in baggy silk trousers-one was an ex-eunuch." In the simple, gruffly tender relationship between the stray orphan and the fugitive bounder, Boy combines the charm of Huck Finn with the ruggedness of a Hemingway safari...
Unamuno's countrymen adored him without ever quite understanding him. And Unamuno, in truth, is not easy to understand. Words often poured from him in a formless rush; he was hostile to reason. The pure rationalist, he insisted, is no more fit to comment on life than the eunuch is fit to judge a beauty contest. In Tragic Sense of Life he wrote, "The mind seeks what is dead, for what is living escapes it; it seeks to congeal the flowing stream in blocks of ice. In order to understand anything, it is necessary to kill...
Hong Kong's two Communist dailies last week breathlessly recounted the exploits of one Cheng Ho, a eunuch employed by the third Ming Emperor, whose fleet of junks explored the East African coast 80 years before the Portuguese got there in 1498. Both front page stories, purporting to prove that China and Africa had a long history of "friendly intercourse," celebrated the departure for post-colonial Africa of Communist China's Premier Chou Enlai, who is the grandest panjandrum from Peking ever to visit that continent...
Truant Pet. The Two Old Maids is a story about two aging sisters who live in shabby seclusion with their ancient housekeeper and a beloved pet-a mettlesome monkey named Tombo, who, "though a eunuch, was, after all, the male of the house." One day the Mother Superior of the neighboring convent brings alarming news: Tombo has been seen stealing into the chapel at night where he ate the consecrated hosts, tried to say Mass, and even urinated on the altar. It is clear to one sister that he must die. The old maids consult two priests, the older...
...nothing, and not surprisingly the two nothings mate. As the affair continues, it becomes increasingly important to the two participants to see Charley fail-in his career as an architect and in his quest for citizenship. When Charley passes his citizenship test, his wife runs away with a eunuch. Her desertion drives her narrator-lover into madness...