Word: lepere
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...palatial feast that rapidly degenerates into a gutter brawl. But the brawl is intended also as a rite, as the dissolution of a desiccated society in a Dionysian mystery. In the depths of it, as the rabble bawls and dances, fights and fornicates all over the house, the leper puts a record on the gramophone, and suddenly with supernal irony the scene of chaos is explained and sanctified by a great chorus roaring triumphantly to Handel's music: "And He shall reign forever and ever!" Seldom in cinema has the nature of revolution been realized with such profundity...
...despairing architect hero of Greene's latest and best novel attempts to isolate himself from worldwide fame by retreating to a tropical leper hospital. Yet what he finds is a mirror image of himself and of the civilization that he fled...
...Burnt-Out Case, by Graham Greene. Deadened in spirit, as a leper is benumbed in body, a famed architect takes himself off to a leper colony, closely followed by a venal journalist intent upon according him canonization-by-newsprint. Never has Greene stated more eloquently his lifelong argument with...
...expected in a Greene novel, love persists among God's grotesques. A leper with ghastly mutilations mates with another who crawls like a wounded toad to her rendezvous. Says one of the White Fathers: "Sometimes I think God was not entirely serious when he gave man the sexual instinct," but the offspring is baptized. Querry, however, is beyond love and beyond all sacrament, his only surviving faith a certain "regard for the truth." And so he is doomed, not only by Corruption, in the person of Parkinson, but by Innocence, personified in Marie Rycker, the child wife...
...Whom the Bell. Even among the lepers and the loathsome jungle there is no escape from the fate of being Querry. A leading leper has been assigned to him as a "boy"; his name-and only Graham Greene could think of this-is Deo Gratias. Toeless, fingerless, he gets about; he is a "burntout" or arrested case, like Querry himself, but his mutilation has left him unfit to live in the world, and so he re-enacts the Biblical horror that obliged the leper to carry a warning bell and cry of himself, "Unclean...