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...friends. Among these are such sinister characters as the dead man's wife and her lover as well as the dead man's mistress and her husband. The rest of the cast is made up of a broker who handles his friends' finances, a postman, and the Italian landlord. One of these--and the only one who is obviously innocent--is killed off just to keep the bloodthirsty happy. Meanwhile a suave detective and his typical Irish assistant try to put the clues together with the none-too-welcome help of the scatterbrained Mrs. North. Most mystery fans should...
...from Venice, "my health growing better, and my spirits not worse, the 'besoin d'aimer' came back upon my heart . . . and, after all, there is nothing like it." This time the besoin d'aimer took the form of Marianna Segati, wife of Byron's landlord, who ran a draper's shop at the sign of Il Corno (the horn), soon changed by his apprentices into II Corno Inglese (horns by Byron). Marianna has been described as a "demon of avarice and libidinousness." But Byron found that her hair had "the curl and colour...
Parts of the book come as close to reproducing the actual as words and pictures can. Evans' photographs of the landlord, the tenant families, their houses and town are as direct and honest as though his camera had no lens at all. Agee heaps up verbal detail on everything he saw or imagined, including...
...shepherds of Texas; the ancient Romans to the Boers; the Roman electoral body to the cosmopolitan demagogy of the United States; Rome itself to London, Paris, New York, Berlin, Milan; and Lucullus to Napoleon. He talks about capitalism, parliamentarism, imperialism, feminism . . . clubs, meetings, high life. . . . Cato is a landlord; M. Aemilius Scaurus a self-made man; Caesar a socialist leader, a Tammany boss...
...today and he told me the Social Worker had done notified him to come to town next Tuesday to have a intercourse with her so I guess he will be on the WP & A soon." The Taylors decided to go too. They had not bothered to tell their landlord they were leaving his crop in the fields...