Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Simon's techniques. Parts of the book are brilliant-notably the scenes of bickering between the dying woman's brother and sister-in-law. Realist Simon forces the reader to note precisely the tics and twitches of decaying minds, and to feel the texture of withering flesh. But something is lost when Simon's subject is less elemental than death. The reader never really learns what is happening to the book's narrator, the daughter-in-law of the bickering couple. The same uncertain fog enshrouds her husband-or is it her lover? Ambiguity...
...some other reason for the law's distinction. Rabbi Tendler's answer: the dividing line is between the organism which exists on living matter (the worm on vegetable material, the flea on blood) and that which lives on dead and decaying matter (the maggot on rotting flesh, the head louse oa dead flakes of skin...
...face stepped up to her. "Can I help you, my dear?" she inquired. Off they went-but not to the right address. They went instead to a dingy house in a dark street, where the girl was imprisoned, raped, beaten and tortured. Then she was shipped off to the flesh marts of the Continent, sold at auction to the highest bidder. She never saw home or family again...
Paradoxically, the most effective ally of the flesh peddler was the prude. As a French police official explained, "The education of English girls is usually of such a strictly prudish character that, in their ignorance of the world, they offer themselves the easiest prey imaginable...
...commercial vice. Their methods of recruiting were many and ingenious. The proprietors of the padding kens were on the payroll, as were the managers of "baby farms." Procurers worked hand in glove with society dressmakers, who sent hundreds of girls from the sweatshops to the knocking-shops. The flesh merchants also posed as theatrical agents. One of them, a rogue named Klyberg, assured stagestruck beauties that in Brussels they would "become actresses . . . ladies . .. A lot of gentlemen will come and learn you to play the piano...