Word: jabber
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began in late September the intriguing mystery of an ex-spook's last voyage, aboard a sloop that he had fancifully but appropriately named Brillig, from the "Jabber, wocky" in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. After the body was discovered, the CIA insisted that there was no mystery. Paisley was not a spy, said a CIA press spokesman. He was an intelligence analyst. Moreover, he had retired from the agency in 1974. The CIA had no quarrel with Maryland state police theories that Paisley had committed suicide. Six months before his death, he had left...
...night in question. Stopping at a filling station or roadside store, they catch long looks and intimations of menace. There is no safety anywhere. The dog and the wives, all of whom have been provided with roughly the same opportunities for characterization, respond similarly to the situation: they jabber and yap and tremble. The wives, however, are spared Ginger's indignity of being nailed to the door of the mobile home...
Gradually the stage fills with weird, masked figures from the mists of prehistory: tribesmen in vast, shaggy costumes thumping drums, bonging gongs, pinging cymbals. Enormous idols appear. Frenzied, the primitives swirl and bang and jabber. The shaman speaks: God demands a sacrifice, the greatest sacrifice is sex, a taboo is born...