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...gardening, harvesting, vintaging, whippings, slavery, incest, fires, hangings, invasion, sacking, rape and pestilence, we have had no experience. What can a poor nun know of the world?" When two feudal armies clash, the impact knocks all their knightly paraphernalia to the ground. Instead of fighting, the knights scramble for loot, then make swaps. "What is war, after all," writes Calvino, "but the passing of more and more dented objects from hand to hand...
While trying to weave their way through this puzzle, the police, still intrigued with Moriarty's peculiar banking habits, began searching for more loot. Sure enough, in a garage not far from the original site, they found two paper sacks containing $168,675, also presumed to belong to Newsboy. This brought the total haul to $2,590,255. The discovery in turn sent swarms of children, old ladies and other assorted adventurers on a wild treasure hunt in Jersey City garages. Those citizens have to wait their turn, however. The state was interested in taking...
...sticks as close to him as a birthmark. He has a bigger caper in mind, lifting ?40,000 from a race track. To the syncopated beat of the score, the job goes off with tingling finesse. In a bleak, snow-bitten field, Johnny digs a hole and buries his loot; two reels later, when the crime syndicate crushes him, it proves to be his grave. The sound track mourns and mocks him with the teasing, empty sensuality of a saxophoney prison-ballad blues...
...police decided to search the car. There on the back seat, wrapped in newspapers, were eight rolled-up canvases by Cézanne that had been taken from an exhibition in Aix-en-Provence last August. Valued at $2,000,000, the Cézannes were the loot in the most daring art theft since the Mono, Lisa disappeared from the Louvre 50 years...
...Loot for Rome. The kouros was found in 1959, when workmen in Piraeus, the seaport of ancient and modern Athens, dug up a busy street to repair a sewer. The statues lay on a mosaic floor and were covered with black dirt mixed with ashes and broken roof tiles, indicating that they had been buried in the wreckage of a fire. Deep among them the diggers found a coin that was issued in 87 or 86 B.C.-which strongly suggested that the kouros must have been covered over about that time...