Word: iscariot
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...down, Dante encounters three giants, 30 monsters, dozens of demons, and 128 spirits he can call by name-among them Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Ulysses, Mahomet, Brutus and Judas Iscariot. He also meets some of his best friends, but finds them leniently dealt with: his old teacher, for instance, the famous Brunette Latini, is only slightly singed for his sodomy. Dante's personal enemies are more numerous and less fortunate; their agonies are described with grisly glee...
...What kind of man is this Rowe that comes into a fraternal organization by hook or crook?" cried Murphy. "He cares not what he swears to, and let me say this, gentlemen: he took an oath when he joined the United Klans of America. Remember Judas Iscariot! [Rowe] took this oath with his hand raised to Almighty God in joining the United Klans of America...
...narrator in this picaresque novel of present-day Cape Cod is an itinerant chef named J. I. (for Judas Iscariot) LeBlanche. A red-haired giant in his 50s, he is engaging in his strength and directness, benevolently tyrannical in his kitchen, reluctantly restrained in his lechery. At first sampling, his involuted tale concerns his summer successes in work and play at a run-down resort, chronicled in a fine and gusty prose. But there is also a grimly pathetic story: the racking hardships of LeBlanche's disaster-struck past and the haunting horror of his wife's death...
...what is in your hearts and minds. In truth-who is not aware of it?-the matter is between each woman and man of France and myself." Some had already answered. European activists in Algiers scrawled two-foot slogans on walls: "Say no to the monster!" "No to Judas Iscariot!" Gutters were choked with ripped-up posters supporting De Gaulle. In the surrounding towns, armed Europeans threatened to shoot Gaullist bill posters if they did not take to their heels...
...change in the breeze of opinion. Matthew is "short, stout, jaundiced; his hands yellow and soft, his fingers inky, nails black; he had long hairy ears and a high voice like a eunuch's." The one strong man of the lot is a red-bearded giant named Judas Iscariot...