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...sweet, the good and the pure, was called Trout Fishing in America. The main character was Trout Fishing itself-among the cleanest and most refreshing combinations of words in English. Unfortunately, this personification of a peerless gerund suffered a surrealistic metamorphosis that included its becoming a pen point, a legless alcoholic and a dinner companion of Maria Callas. At the end, Trout Fishing wound up in a junkyard as a used stream, for sale by the foot...
...mountains. How about a part in the film for Wife Elizabeth Taylor? "She could have played a woman doctor, a partisan who was badly wounded, had both legs amputated and died later," said Burton. But nothing came of it for some reason-sparing audiences the unsettling experience of a legless...
Many of those arrested walked to the police buses on crutches or limping with war wounds. Police refused, however, to take one legless soldier who was sitting in the middle of the crowd. Explained Washington Police Chief Jerry V. Wilson, "No legs buys a man a lot of immunity...
Others call for even more specialized humans to perform functions that in reality will probably be done better by machines. British Geneticist J.B.S. Haldane called for certain regressive mutations to enable man to survive in space, including legless astronauts who would take up less room in a space capsule and require less food and oxygen (larger and more powerful spacecraft would seem to be an easier and less monstrous solution). Haldane also suggested apelike men to explore the moon. "A gibbon," he said only half-jokingly, "is better preadapted than a man for life in a low gravitational field...
...husband reappeared unexpectedly, he became not only her legal husband again -the second marriage was invalidated -but also, under Italian law, the father of the children. The family decided to live together in a cozy menage a trois in which the woman was married to the first man, a legless veteran, but cohabited with the second...