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...sort of healthy open-minded girl that people used to call nymphomaniac," says Lauren Slaughter, the whimsical heroine of the first novella, "Dr. Slaughter". It doesn't exactly have the ring to it that "Call me Ishmael" does; but our these lines Theroux hangs his tale. Lauren has recently arrived in London from the States to work for a global think tank. After a few months at the institute, she receives a videotape from some unknown sender designed to recruit young women for an escort service. Bored at her research post and eager for some excitement, she decides to give...
...Call me Ishmael...
...three guards escorted him to the lavatory. The prisoner emerged brandishing a snub-nosed handgun. He disarmed his guards--two of whom had black belts in karate--and ordered the pilot to fly the American Airlines DC-10 to Cuba. Thus Ishmail Muslim Ali, 37, formerly known as Ishmael La Beet, once again made headlines as the Virgin Islands' most notorious criminal...
...Call me Ishmael"? No, far too good. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . ."? A beauty, a classic-but all wrong for the Second Annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, which asks contestants to try their hand at composing truly atrocious opening sentences to hypothetical bad novels. Says San Jose State University English Professor Scott Rice: "We want the kind of writing that makes the reader...
...quote from Genesis implies that the Jews are the only descendants of Abraham. Abraham's eldest son was Ishmael, which makes the Arabs his descendants also. The kinship between the Jews and the Arabs, not the animosity, is what should be stressed...