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...Indian maiden struggles and writhes beneath the U.S. cavalrymen. When the rape is over, a trooper unsheathes his bowie knife and cuts off one of her breasts. The soldiers use it as a ball, batting it around with their rifles...
...nights when subfreezing winds knife through the empty streets of Beaver and Boise City, "those who stayed" sometimes still hear the ghostly whimpers of thirsty children and the plaintive bleats of dying calves. Yet today Steinbeck's crucible of dust and storm is a wild and beautiful country, made fertile by deepwell irrigation. Clean, brisk air, coming more in waves than gusts, buffets the winter wheat and corn that thrust above the occasional snows and seem to sway in time to the thumping of the irrigation pumps. Everywhere a new spirit of enthusiasm and industry is at work...
...object. Although it is replete with sex orgies and James Bondian power fantasies, the satire is based on the story of Abraham and Isaac. In Charles' existential updating, however, there is no sacrificial ram to substitute for Isaac and no hand of God to stop Abraham's knife. The New Satyricon often reads like a pegged-leg parody of both William Burroughs' Naked Lunch and John Barth's Giles Goat...
...return to Jefferson four days later, Lucius has gotten an eyeful of sparks. He has been stabbed for defending Corrie's good name against the slanders of her rotten nephew Otis ("Imagine," says a wondering Boon as he cleans out the wound, "eleven years old and already knife-cut in a whorehouse brawl"). He has found himself in the middle of a quarrel between his pals and Sheriff Butch Lovemaiden. And he has become involved in the damnedest, most exciting horse race anybody ever...
...knew Manson at the Spahn Ranch said that Manson had lured Mrs. Kasabian away from her husband, got her to steal $5,000 from him and other men at the ranch. When the men caught Manson, "he showed us his big buck knife, with about a twelve-inch blade, and he asked us if we would like to kill him, just to prove he couldn't die." Manson, said the ranchman, read deeply in Oriental theology, and believed in reincarnation and the insignificance of individual lives. Manson, who is white, "felt the Establishment was the white...