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...moving narrative of a student's sick return from premedical school to the farm of his swinish father and mother. In an atmosphere supercharged with nervous prostration, sadism, fornication, drunkenness, adultery and lack of funds the young student, at his mother's instigation poisons his father. Maternal incest and suicide are thereafter overwhelmingly indicated, but Author Jeffers finally prescribes his hero's self-sacrificial surrender to the Law to put his story out of its misery. From the residue of ideological wreckage readers may salvage some souvenirs of sense by recalling that incest, in Jeffersian prophecy, symbolizes...
...shame which heaped upon Tennessee when its laws were found Dowerless to prevent child marriages (TIME, Feb. 15),* a domestic relations case up last week in California brought obloquy far deeper & darker. The story reminded newsreaders of the powerful poetry of California's Robinson Jeffers, whose plots of incest the polite public shrinks from as wilful departures from reality...
Into Riverside County Superior Court went one Marjorie MacDonald, 19, seeking annulment of her marriage with Anstruther MacDonald. She charged him with rape and also with incest, for Anstruther MacDonald is her father. He and her mother had separated when Marjorie was 3. She had not seen him again until she was 12. When she was 14, her mother having died and her foster-father remarried, she went to live with Anstruther MacDonald. Within a year she was not only his daughter but his mistress...
Here Author Faulkner plays his last joker, for readers of The Sound and the Fury will recall that Quentin Compson himself has been guilty of incest with his sister, and that he commits suicide while at Harvard as a result...
...demons in the energumen readily identified themselves. One was Judas. Another was the woman's dead father, named Jacob, who said he was damned for attempting unsuccessfully to induce her to commit incest with him. A third was Mina, the dead man's concubine, who said she had "murdered four little ones." Finally there were Beelzebub and hordes of imps who seemed to leave and reenter the energumen's body. The voices of all the demons issued from her mouth, with varying intonation, in English, German and Latin...