Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soft as a lion-pad I heard the gun-carriages turn, saw them vomit and drool; the firmament sagged and all the stars turned black. Black ocean bleeding and the brooding stars breeding chunks of fresh-swelled flesh while overhead the birds wheeled and out of the hallucinated sky fell the balance with mortar and pestle and the bandaged eyes of justice. All that is here related moves with imaginary feet along the parallels of dead orbs; all that is seen with the empty sockets bursts like flowering grass. Out of the nothingness arises the sign of infinity; beneath...
...tung's decision was for industry, not man, for greater tension, not less. The sloganeers took over from the economists. Without iron and steel, they shouted, China is "like a fat man-all flesh and no bone and muscle." Did the farms need fertilizer? Crowed an official: "I think of the stomach of every man and animal as a small fertilizer factory...
...famous (and highly favorable) review of the book, George Orwell called Miller a "Whitman among the corpses," and the phrase nicely conveys the real flavor of the novel. Parts of its are very funny, but in general--especially in sexual passages--Tropic is commenting on the death of the flesh in modern urban society...
...sculptor, Swiss-born Alberto Giacometti of Paris. Giacometti once declared that he wanted his figures to be "immense." But in working on them, he is almost always driven to whittling them down to emaciation, as if he were looking for some elusive essence inside one layer of flesh after another. His figures seem still to be searching for that essence long after they leave his studio, eternal and lonely question marks...
...much Cecilia), it is Dino's turn. What follows is the old sexual war that Moravia has refought too many times. In scenes so explicit as to make publishers of cheap paperbacks slaver for the reprint rights, Dino dies a thousand deaths on his cross of flesh. Characteristically, Moravia says that all this is simply a way to show that Dino is trying to achieve "reality"' by rediscovering the human touch. But when Cecilia takes on another lover, Dino is stuck in his Moravian hell indeed. In the end. nothing is solved or changed. After all, says Moravia...