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...Libido. Hatterr decides to get into the swami racket himself. But just as he and his partner are about to put on their big show for the gullible, he learns what his own billing is to be: that of a saintly eunuch who has surgically rendered "his id and libido null and void." Much attached to his id and libido, Hatterr scoots off into the brush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where Kipling Left Off | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

...Tickler). Michael IV was valet to the Emperor Romanus, who used to call Michael in to tickle the soles of his feet. Romanus' wife, the Empress Zoe, fell in love with Michael, poisoned Romanus, married tickling Michael and made him Emperor, while Michael's brother, John the Eunuch, ran the country as premier. Michael got sick, locked himself in a room and died refusing to see the lovelorn Zoe. John the Eunuch went on running the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: From Table Top to Throne | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...sexual contact is strictly forbidden. Poole is urged to join the California priesthood, which can be done by submitting to an operation that will forever remove potency. But in the meantime Poole has discovered a luscious vessel named Loola, who has taught him a few things. Preferring Loola to eunuch lordship, Poole escapes from Los Angeles towards a lonely northern outpost where, it is rumored, men are still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Devil & the Deep Blue Huxley | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...only preventive [for baldness] . . . is to avoid being born to parents with a streak of baldness. It's probably something to do with the sex glands. Nobody has ever seen a bald eunuch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How Am I, Doctor? | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...Congress of Vienna contains brilliant, mostly sympathetic pen-portraits of all the principal actors, but Britain's Lord Castlereagh is Nicolson's favorite. In his day, Castlereagh was the best-hated statesman in England. (Byron called him "the vulgarest tool that Tyranny could want," and "the intellectual eunuch"; Shelley wrote the famous lines: I met Murder on the way-He had a mask like Castlereagh.) Contemptuous of parliamentary and public opinion, antiliberal, cold-blooded Castlereagh desired the independence of Poland, Saxony, Genoa, but when he found these aims were unattainable he set them aside. "The Congress of Vienna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How to Fight a Peace | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

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