Word: lobotomist
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...indestructible alley fighter, cons his way into an insane asylum to escape the drudgery of a prison farm. His battle is with Big Nurse, the white-starched emasculator who bulls his ward, and he beats her every round except the inevitable last one. And, capering defiantly toward the lobotomist's knife, he pipes the other inmates toward self-respect, a service they resent all the more because the journey terrifies them...
...artist-as-an-old-grog, Gulley Jimson. The resemblance extends to the knockabout plot, kept in motion by Shillitoe's talent for anarchy, his tropism for cops and his tendency to rant at strangers. Even at the end, when Shillitoe is strapped to the operating table while the lobotomist's needle probes to discover whether truth is beauty, his plight is reminiscent of Jimson clinging to his wall and painting his soaring mural while the walls threaten to fall down about...
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