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drew power; and Irma Barnfield fits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inside the Holocaust | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

...Rahabaat. The natives have all the sins of the senses, but no sense of sm. They worship Rahabaat, a god who lives in the local volcano, with frank fertility rites. When Sam preaches his Vermont fundamentalism at the men, they giggle and slip away into the underbrush When Irma tries to clothe the women in sacklike dresses of her own design, they cut holes in the tops to bare their breasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inside the Holocaust | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

After a brief vogue, even this ventilated version goes out of fashion. When the natives hear of Irma's virginity, they laughingly dub her "The One Too Slippery to Be Caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inside the Holocaust | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

...Irma has been caught by the languid charm of October Island. While Sam files reports of "no progress" to his superiors, she scouts around the island and one day digs up an hermaphroditic sculpture. Shocked, she heaves it into the volcano. Her Christian mission, she decides is to destroy as many of these pagan relics as possible. The natives find her constant digging odd, but since she tosses everything into Rahabaat's volcano, they find her piety admirable. When, in a moment of hunger, she eats a portion of roast piglet left on the altar of Rahabaat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inside the Holocaust | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

Great Breast Mother. Irma's true hour

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inside the Holocaust | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

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