Word: jailer
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...vicious characters, jailers and jailed, are often splendid company, though the protagonist, who calls himself Count La Ruse, is bedeviled by his author's insistence that, like the Pirates of Penzance, he is an authentic and fundamentally virtuous nobleman "who has gone wrong." His vis-a-vis, the jailer's daughter, is a salty bit of mutton, a lively dollop of trollop, when she is not made to work at it too hard. Other scoundrels are beautifully done, notably an ineffable poisoner who comes at first glance amazingly close to success in his function of representing Unashamed Ultimate Evil...
/Judges 9:54 (Abimelech), Judges 16:30 (Samson), / Samuel 31'4-5 (Saul and his armor bearer), // Samuel 17:23 (Ahithophel), I Kings 16:18 (Zimri), // Maccabees 14:41 (Razis), Matthew 27:5 (Judas), Acts 16:27 (the jailer...
...always enraged a man's neighbors and masters. If the literary shades of other prisoners seem to be sharing the cell in the old prison-fortress -for instance, Joseph K. of Franz Kafka's The Trial-they are quickly evicted with the first entry of the jailer. He is a redhaired, comic-opera functionary who promptly asks the prisoner for a waltz. As they whirl off down the corridor, it becomes plain what Author Nabokov is up to; he is writing a fantasy-satire whose imagery is surrealist, whose logic is the logic of the dream...
...wheel. At a movie, Free could not believe his eyes; Untamed burst into tears when she saw children at play in a park. While a sympathetic public offered jobs ranging from housemaid to factory hand to Sonia and the government promised to care for her children, the father-jailer was locked up in a cell. The charges: kidnaping, illegal possession of firearms, assault, violation of child-labor laws, failure to register the manufacture and sale of a poisonous product, and income tax evasion. Said he: "I am a freethinker. What can the outside world offer my family? Prostitution, crime, drunkenness...
Shortly past midnight a group of about eight or ten dark figures darted through the moonlight toward the Poplarville, Miss. courthouse. Opening a window, they slipped into the sheriff's office. They seemed to know that the jailer had gone for the night. They knew, too, that the cell keys were in a metal cabinet in the sheriff's office. Some of the raiders waited in the darkened second-floor courtroom, while a few others, wearing gloves and masks, pushed their way through the courtroom into the cell area just above. A voice barked and startled Prisoner...