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Pampered and Lonely. Everyone called Simone "Biquette," meaning little goat...
...watched coolies singsong a dismantled truck up the cliff, for use on the highway leading to the static front. They inspected cave dwellings of two or more well-swept rooms with an earthen shelf for the family bed, an earthen fireplace and an earth-rirnmed pen for the goat. They saw signs of ample food, good discipline, an official distaste for Communists. Every citizen of Kenanpo, including General Yen, must cultivate a little garden. No one wears skirts in Kenanpo; men, women & children dress in identical floppy blue trousers and jackets. The climate is like Arizona...
...Grandsailles, who gave a brilliant dinner party where "congested epiderms . . . empurpled the candelabra," and the guests' faces were "caught in the ferocious meshes of anamorphosis." With "faint but delightful anguish" the Count detected in the "immaculate turgescence" of his cream cheese "the animal femininity of the she-goat...
...potatoes on the side. In part of Montenegro and Bosnia famine is chronic; thousands of people live on nettles. But they live, and they fight. Men and beasts alike are always hungry for salt. A peasant will offer 9 lb. of corn for 2 lb. of salt, or a goat and kid for 11 lb. of salt. This spring, as every spring, wheat and vegetables have been sowed, but the peasants remember the German way of marching in at harvest time...
...Europe. Recently he moved with his third wife and their three children to a farmhouse in Pomona, N.Y., near Manhattan (reason: the gas shortage). His Pomona neighbors include Playwright Maxwell Anderson, Cinemactress Paulette Goddard. But Miss Goddard, says Peirce, turns up only very rarely "to stroke a goat...