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...MAMBA (232 pp.)-Sfuarf Cloefe-Houghfon Mifflin...
...woman by leaving lizards about the house, and listens unmoved to the screams of a native being devoured alive by driver ants. When Henry turns jealous-for Helen has been meeting "I" in the bamboo thickets-he is inspired to his masterpiece of zoological warfare: he coils a dead mamba on Helen's dressing table. He is betting on the mamba's being not only a fearsome and deadly reptile, but one with the habit of seeking its dead mate. The relict of the dead mamba arrives on schedule and bites Helen in the neck. She dies...
...RADIO & TV). Then he rolled in a cloud of dust 530 miles along the corrugated dirt track, called the Great North Road, to Chinsali, a district commissioner's headquarters. There he switched to a bicycle and pedaled down a goat path through man-high bush, infested with mamba snakes, lions and man-eating chiggers, to the mud-and-thatch village where lives the prophetess, Lenshina Mulenga (see RELIGION...
...Black Mamba" was originally written as an exercise in a composition course, quite simply and openly as a stylistic experiment. The actual amount of Lawrence material in the story constituted perhaps one twentieth of the whole. I had done similar exercises with stories by Joyce and Katherine Anne Porter and Hemingway. The instructor was fully aware that I was doing experimental stories: there was no subterfuge involved. Certainly there was no intention of publishing it as it was first written...
...completely rewrote the story for a composition course I took this fall, cutting out much of the Lawrence. The instructor knew that "Black Mamba" had been first written in another course and that it was influenced by Lawrence. At the time I had not read "Sun" for over a year, but its role in "Black Mamba" seemed negligible enough to permit publication in a non-profit college magazine. However, before the story was submitted for the December, "Advocate" I again completely rewrote it in an attempt to eliminate whatever Lawrence material I remembered. Obviously I was not successful...