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...revelation that Barclay experiences drives him to take the initiative against Tucker. He had already decided that he would no longer flee from Tucker; instead, "Rick should become my prey." But when a friend recommends that Barclay overcome his "universal indifference" by cultivating his affections, even starting with a dog, Barclay adapts the suggestion by trying to reduce Tucker to the condition of a dog. Tantalizing Tucker with the prospect of being Barclay's literary executor, Barclay forces Tucker at one point to lap wine from a saucer...
Minutes later, Jamie (Rick Springfield), fleeing his bathroom, races across the screen, a company of excited fans not far behind. Outside his bathroom, a disgruntled song writer swings a broken wine bottle threateningly at Jamie's band, forcing him to flee towel-clad into the auditorium. Borrowing a pair of potato-sack fashioned pants from his assistant, Jame races off, his hair somehow blow-dried along the way until evidently traumatized by the ordeal of screaming fans clawing at his skin-tight clothes on stage and the real goods afterwards, he loses control of his car, totaling a vegetable stand...
...drove her to a motel in Bainbridge, Ga., where he raped her and tortured her with electric shocks, at one point attempting to seal shut her eyes with glue. She escaped into a bathroom, locking herself in and screaming so loudly that she attracted rescuers and caused Wilder to flee...
...those who are able to leave their lethal city stay on? When asked if he will flee, Moyse responds, "To where?" Many residents have learned to tune out the chaos, though that gift carries its peril. Caught in the middle of a blazing gun battle near the Beirut airport, an old farmer continued to till his tiny plot. Afterward, when asked why he did not seek cover, he replied, "If I waited for the fighting to stop, I would never get the soil ready for planting. The seasons don't stop for wars." In its own weary, puzzling, stubborn...
...does he owe Tucker his Life, authorized and handsomely bound between hard covers? Barclay postpones the answer by escaping once again into aimless, inebriated travel, leaving a trail of bogus forwarding addresses. By this point, Golding reaches for his old standby, the clamoring metaphysical question. Does Barclay flee because he is afraid of being saved or damned? Who is Halliday, the mysterious American billionaire who has given Tucker seven years to win Barclay upi as a trophy? Broad hints are dropped that the author and the critic have begun to exchange identities. Barclay asks the American: "How come you speak...