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...story tells the plight of Miles Faber, a wealthy young pedant who is determined to visit the Caribbean island of Castita in order to discover facts about a totally unsung native poet named Sib Legeru. His innocent search soon plunges him into confrontations with menacing strangers who demand answers to fantastic questions instead of replying to Miles' simple ones. Worse, he learns that not only is he the child of an incestuous union but that he also has both a sister and a double on the island. Murder and mayhem follow with appropriate speed...
...never thought any thing might happen to him. At Berlin, I realized the foundations were shaking." And at Berlin, surrounded by the hysteria, madness, and mission that culminated in Adolf Hitler, Auden wrote extraordinary poetry, and people noticed. The people included T. S. Eliot, who, as an editor at Faber and Faber, published Auden's first book. And so, Auden's career began...
...marcheses, mercenary Bergamese whores, slippery Italian counts, witless German art experts, villainous Peruvian generals, paranoiac harpies, spiteful Russian cats, specious Polish wizards, spying pigeons, nosy janitors and ambitious Irish cops." He is also completely immersed in the unquestionably sprightly, if unusually perverse, world of three painters-Benjamin Littleboy, Leo Faber and himself -all three who are struggling haplessly to deal with the vagaries of their art and of their lives...
...process, Littleboy is driven to hang himself. The narrator murders six Boston "innocents" and (accidentally) his friend Faber with strychnine. His wife runs off with his agent. His entire work is stolen. Reveries then turn into nightmares, and he goes completely mad. Summing up, he cries out, "I've been thwarted by an angel, duped by God and stalked by the Devil. Who would believe such things could happen in Boston...
...personal attack. When Daley returned to his modest brick bungalow in the Bridgeport section of the South Side, 800 admirers greeted him with cheers and signs: HOORAY FOR DALEY and PRIDE OF THE U.S.-CHICAGO POLICE. In the drab Six Corners neighborhood on the Northwest Side, Construction Worker Arthur Faber, 45, expressed the sentiments of perhaps a majority of Chicagoans and millions of other Americans: "I say he did all right. How else is he going to stop all this stuff...