Word: jointless
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Nearby, painted wooden slaves work at routine tasks. There are also bakeries, granaries, and tables laden with food—Djehutynakt apparently spared no daily comforts when planning for the afterlife. The statues are rudimentary. The slaves walk with stiff, jointless limbs, and their figures seem to lurch rather than to move. Despite their rigidity, the figures exude a captivating energy. Several models show slaves feeding oxen, the prostrate beasts reaching their heads forward to the hands of the kneeling slaves. This is an aspect of Egyptian life not captured in the impersonal statues of kings...
...Jack Kerouac, the beats' most beamish boy. His characters ride a reeling carousel equipped with stolen cars instead of painted tigers, and to the reader they are mostly blurred faces. The trouble is that when the whirling stops, the faces are still blurred and the conversation still pointless-jointless. A happy solution has occurred to Author Kerouac; he has written a volume in which the whirling is continuous and the characters negligible - in other words, a travel book...
...city; depravity, warped and twisted. Not talent but words fitted into disgusting thoughts, and then moulded into repelling images. First Prize. "Armed with the morning paper rolled in his pocket, he heads for the purchasing of smoke, the disguiser of perplexity and the medium of delight." And after jointless words; again pointless obscenities. A true picture filtered on a canvas through a sewer...
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