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With fewer shoulders hefting a bigger load of mail, the spirit and flesh have grown weaker. Rademacher plans to testify to the Senate this week that morale is down and mortality is up among his union members. An ongoing national survey by the union that has so far covered 110 cities shows that mailmen have suffered 300 heart attacks and 24 deaths on the job since last April-three times the comparable statistics for those cities in the previous year...
...confess his deepest secret-a passionate love for his cousin Roxana. But when the heroine falls in love with an Adonean but doltish young soldier, Cyrano offers to help him by writing the love-letters whose beauty win Roxana's heart. Christian, the beautiful youth, seeks triumph of the flesh; Cyrano, the poet, seeks glorification of the spirit...
...really proper to call them men any more. "Shapes" is a better word-grotesque sculptures of scarred flesh and gnarled limbs. At lunch at the hospital, they eat rice, fried pork and bananas, and as their chopsticks dart from bowl to mouth, they seem almost normal-but they are not. When lunch is over, they do not stand up. Years of being shackled in the tiger cages have forced them into a permanent pretzel-like crouch. They move like crabs, skittering across the floor on buttocks and palms...
...courtesans are not the elegantly larcenous creatures they used to be. Equally arresting are Send In the Clowns (Johns), a rueful gaze into the cracked mirror of the middle years, and The Miller's Son (Jamin-Bartlett), a gath-er-ye-rosebuds-while-ye-may paean to the flesh...
...surface world that Reuben has just left. The inhabitants of The City survive in a condition they cannot bear and cannot conceive of escaping from. They endure by shooting heroin (the whole book could work on the level of a descent into a junkie's world), by eating human flesh out of insane hunger; they cower in corners to avoid facing each other; they go to movie houses and play pool...