Word: flee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family tried to flee the country three times. On the first try, the leader of the fleeing group of families turned out to be a police agent, who led the group into a trap. Several people were shot, and Tatrallyay's family was captured by the Hungarian secret police...
...THIS incident only probably happened. The narrative moves within the context of Yanos' explanation to his fishermen friends of Anada's return to the river and suicide. As Yanos recalls his increasingly dominant passion--his brusqueness dissolving into his kissing her, his resolve to flee melting into his buying her secret presents that she refuses, all his upright intentions leading to his sleeping with her--he cannot separate reality from his imagination's desires. When he recalls making love with Anada, she uses the same words as his wife. Has his imagination supplied that speech to make the act less...
...frequently been identified with the "urbanization" strategy of the U.S. Air Force, a strategy which has wrought unspeakable devastation in the South Vietnamese countryside. Bluntly put, the "rationale" of urbanization has been to saturate the rural areas of the South with bombs, causing large numbers of surviving civilians to flee from areas under NLF control. Crowded into teeming, poverty-striken refugee camps outside South Vietnam's cities, growing numbers of the South Vietnamese people have fallen under the political and military control of the Saigon regime...
...quite giving of itself and hints at cloudy meanings without any apparent obligation to follow through on them. The Blood Oranges, like anything wholly out of time, can never grow. Like ripe fruit and sweet erotic fiction (which it is), it can only shrink and fade when we finally flee Illyria (which we must) and retreat into the more familiar haunts of life itself...
Even inside caves people are not safe from bombing. Phosphate bombs are dropped around cave entrances; the smoke from these bombs blinds those inside and eventually causes loss of consciousness and death. Those who flee from smoke-filled caves are later attacked with high-explosive bombs. In addition, the bombardment is said to include guided missiles that dive into caves...