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These antique legends point back & back to a Garden of Eden, unrecognized by Science, which offers instead a "Lemurian world ... a scene wherein the tortured larva of the human being . . . endured the nightmare of fear and lust which made up his life, in desperate conflict with scaly mountains of flesh in the shape of flying lizards and giant newts." Says Author Mann: Science leads here into a blind alley; this was not the beginning. "We have sounded the well of time to its depths, and not yet reached our goal: the history of man is older than the material world...
...lonely days in a cheerless mansion, bejeweled and embittered, fabulously wealthy in money, but poor in everything else. Jim, the illegitimate son of her kindly, easy going husband, Captain Jacox of the "River Belle", is trained in the ways of Selina, and sacrificing love, honor, friendship, everything to the lust for power, dies unsatisfied. His son, Howard becomes a Communist agitator, married a half-breed Indian for love, finds happiness, as the old Captain, his grandfather has found it, in helping others
...corruption of the oil cartel. The two most interesting figures, however, are the young students, Jallez and Jerphanion, the one attempting to recapture the purity of his love for Helene Sigeau, and the other just emerging from the crises of adolescence and still struggling in the tolls of youthful lust. Both of them are seeking, amid the disillusionment of the decade before the war, some rock on which to build their lives. There are countless other characters: a fake critic, a great poet, a great statesman, and the dog Macaire, an hour of whose life, set down in six pages...
Dominating all the other motifs, industry, politics, crime, letters, society, are the themes of pure love, which are orchestrated in the story of Jallez' struggles; and those of lust, culminating in the lyrical description of Jerphanion's tortured search for physical love in the streets of Paris, "kingdom of the carnal Eros." Romains is equally sympathetic and equally successful in his treatment of either phase...
...even Trainer Beatty knew what feline lust led Sammy to loose a great "AaaOOf," as he plunged down on Bessie's head. "Come out!" screamed his eight assistants to Beatty. He flicked a whip at the cageful of pedestaled lions & tigers, took the chance of turning his back on them, jumped into the fight. Bang! Bang! Crack! His blank gun, whip and chair were useless. Assistants trained a suffocating fire-hose stream on the fighters. Sammy had his great jaws deep in Bessie's throat. Trainer Beatty grabbed a piece of iron pipe, wrapped his fingers in Sammy...