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...hero of his book is a 1 ft. 4 in. lizard named Frut, a happy-go-lucky character with a decent respect for the customs of his native tableland. Frut says his prayers dutifully, bows to the wisdom of the Sages, and even intones the slogan, "All lizards are born equal"-though he knows that the tableland is a caste society where high-born tablelanders like himself treat the lowly creekers (creek-dwellers) as slaves and sluts...
Together, the two children play at the reality they know best: sudden and violent death. Solemnly, at "an old mill presided over by an ancient owl, they build a little cemetery. There they first bury Paulette's puppy, then a chick, a mole, a ladybird, a rat, a lizard and a cockroach (which Michel impales on a pen while imitating the terrifying sound of a German dive bomber). They even steal crosses from a real cemetery for their animal burial ground...
...President Knopf's first acts was to set up a laboratory to test new decals. When lizard shoes became the rage, Meyercord soon produced a decal that imitated the real article. Such innovations have expanded Meyercord's sales from $1,500,000 when Knopf took over to $9,300,000 last year, more than a third of the world's decal sales. Net profit rose from $106,139 to $356,500. So widely are his decals used by industry that Knopf thinks his sales are a business barometer, because "we know when tractors are selling like...
...South Wind, a perennially popular satiric classic that made him famous; of a stroke; in penury in a borrowed villa on the Isle of Capri. The son of a Scottish cotton-mill owner, Douglas first journeyed to Capri in 1888, on the trail of a rare species of blue lizard, fell in love with the island and made it his soul's operating base. In his middle 40s, he denounced Christian conventions as a sham, declared that Western civilization was inferior to Oriental culture, made a faint bow to convention by closing all letters to his son Robin with...
...Selina succumbs to digressions almost as often as to Boss Paul. Periodically, the novel stops to paint a tapestry of South African customs and manners, e.g., the rousing celebration of Dingaan's Day, a Boer national holiday, a bit of rural horseplay in which a gullible farmer eats lizard's eggs thinking they are stomach pills. Selina's voice bobs through the story, alternately playful and plaintive, but finally conveying the pain and humiliation for which she can never find a real remedy...