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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frenchman and a Marmoset. Its esoteric appeal will be at once evident by the following quotation. "Me. I am hees muzzaire, hees seestaire, le consort of hees soul, le angel of his destinay! she declaimed passionately." Here in a few words is a compact, clear, concordance of the incest theme, inherited through Racine from the great Greeks. The French with their superior sensibility for inferring symbolically the heart of the situation, substitute here a small animal, a marmoset, for the loved one, thereby reducing the horror of the situation which could, otherwise, be unbearable...

Author: By L. K., | Title: BOOKENDS | 5/22/1929 | See Source »

...unnatural inflection that, 1,500 years later, Cesare Cardinal Borgia inclined to?incest with his sisters. His fancies led him to roast people alive, feed others to wild beasts. He loved to mutilate children, women, men. At executions he made victims' parents attend and after the slaughter dine with him, to enjoy their obsequious gagging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Salvaging Caligula | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...complete deliverance lies through an act for normal men the most unthinkable. When his young daughter, April, comes to Point Sur to fetch him for her mother, he forces her, passing through incest to the full exaltation of godhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: VERSE | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...boulders on a headland near Carmel, Calif. Falcons nested in his tower of "hawk-perch" stones. Some years ago he offered Tamar and Other Poems to Manhattan publishers but only an obscure Irish printer, Peter G. Boyle, would risk handling such inflammable material as a tragedy of incest (TIME, March 30, 1925). Reviews soon brought him to a notice for which he has small regard but which must become, despite the book world's busy piddlings, nationwide and perpetual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: VERSE | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...home he found Mollie Greenberg but as she grew into a ripe young Jewish woman of 15, he could not think of her as his sister. Two months ago they eloped, married. Last week they were apprehended in their secret home. The judge held them in $500 bail for incest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: 12,000 Skips | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

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