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...gradually increased, and which aimed at crippling resistance. The role he played in the disorders . . . was that of a power for order . . . like an evil doctor who first encourages the disease so that he may practice on the sufferer. . . ." To terrorize his opponents the Chief Ranger has a "flaying-hut" where "a skull was nailed fast, showing its teeth and seeming to invite entry with its grin. . . . Such are the dungeons above which rise the proud castles of the tyrants, and from them is to be seen the curling savoury smoke of their banquets." And when the Chief Ranger...
...transformed into a fearful and terrifying "battleground full of ominous Gothic effects-miasmal fogs that confuse the Chief Ranger's victims, weird battles between dogs that suggest the means by which Hitler dominated Europe, thick smoke arising from the crematoria and torture chambers of the "flaying-hut," and the plaguelike spread of the Chief Ranger's "glow worm" agents. The total effect of these literary devices is to suggest a far more apt portrait of Hitlerism than any conventionally realistic novel could provide...
...dispute with the British over Antarctic lands and the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas). Argentine Task Force I, five ships with no fewer than five admirals aboard, had pushed south to visit the outpost on Deception Island. It made quite a show of power, especially since the Argentine hut on Deception is only 80 feet from the British base. But when the Argentines learned that the British had sent the 8,000-ton cruiser Nigeria from South Africa to the same waters, they cried out that sovereignty could never be settled by "force" and "tonnage...
...musical trickiest: as she sings to the boy, a church choir nearby is chanting words from the Book of Common Prayer; first the soprano's voice, then the choir, fades in & out like music in a radio play. The chorus angrily follows Peter and the boy to his hut atop a cliff...
There the boy cowers in fear, while Peter rages. As they head out the cliffside door to go fishing, the boy slips and falls, and Peter rushes after him. The townspeople find the hut empty...