Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With a zealot's burning eyes and a full beard, he encouraged comparison with artistic notions of Jesus; yet he found Christianity a perversion of man's finest instincts. "My great religion," declared D.H. Lawrence, "is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect." But his books are models of calculation, the grown-up products of the scholarship boy who was a great exam taker. Although Lawrence celebrated the phallus and sang of the masculine principle, his every work is marked by an almost feminine hysteria that nags as it argues...
Merilee passed through a momentary impulse to cover the steak platter and fan away the odor of flesh, which would be offensive to the nostrils of the Master...
...Merilee admired the soul of the Master. THE MASTER COMES AND GOES. Alyosha's freedom to retire to Mexico. No hassle for Alyosha the Beatified to wait so, cross-legged on a floor mat in Tabasco with his other disciples gathered about him. No one forcing Alyosha to eat flesh. No one going down on the beach and retrieving it if Alyosha threw the alarm clock out the window. Alyosha's soul not bearing the weight of other souls in the Here and Now and maybe not even in the To Be. Alyosha not sorry to leave them, only Merilee...
...shivering, that lovely white flesh aquiverful...
...donned a neighbor's old clothes, the pair disappeared before police came. At the end of last week, they were still missing. ∙ In the ruins, police found 60 sticks of dynamite, 30 blasting caps and four dynamite-packed pipes wrapped with heavy nails that could act as flesh-shredding shrapnel. They also found the body of Theodore Gold, 23, and the unidentified remains of two other persons. A credit card belonging to Kathy Boudin, 26, who may have been the person with Cathlyn, also turned up in the debris. Gold and the girls were all members...