Word: hut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...police knew who the dead man was, and who owned the hut. Both were Existentialists-followers of the morbid postwar philosophy which holds that man is nothing but the sum of his experience and that all experience is inexplicable and tragic (TIME, Jan. 28). Was this an Existentialist murder? The police asked that question of the hut's owner. "An interesting problem," he answered tranquilly...
Farmers had seen a bearded man known as a painter near the hut. That brought in another suspect, an Existentialist artist named Georges Patrix, several of whose canvases hung in Roumeguere's Paris apartment. But Patrix was also cleared...
Once a pupil of Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism's founder, Roumeguere had branched off into "psychophysiological" investigations of esthetic principles. In a wood near Gif-sur-Yvette, Dr. Satan had a hut he called "the House of the Good God." It was used for amorous frolics...
...Saturday night Vintenon and Roumeguere went to the hut. Next day François' mistress arrived and the doctor left. Sunday night François took the girl to Paris, then returned to Gif-sur-Yvette. In the village tavern he was seen to eat some food and swallow many pills; then he went off toward the hut. "Mon Dieu!" cried the doctor, when he found the body the next weekend, "there's an enormous Negro lying...
...hut police had found Nazi documents mentioning one Claude Lormeau, a bearded painter who had fought with the Germans against the Russians. In the hut there was also an abstract painting by Lormeau, on the back of which was a remarkable gouache: a black face with bulging white eyes. It looked exactly like the head of the corpse. Had Lormeau killed Vintenon to provide a model for this gouache? Experts testified that the gouache had been done months before the murder...