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...recover a canvas of the late Spanish painter, Afrodisio Lafuente y Chaos, that the Dublin press has loudly and incorrectly trumpeted as Ireland's own, Tommy promptly funks it and is rescued by a Wodehousian young Englishman named Felix Horniman. Chiefly because Tommy reminds him of a dyspeptic monkey he once befriended in India, Felix casually pinches the picture for him, and the two of them make off for Dublin. The rest of Novelist Tracy's book is a Waughtered-down Irish stew...
...they cheerfully informed me that they no longer ate people, but that their fathers had. Here and there around the village, I would spot a bone that looked suspiciosly human. But they were so damned friendly." First offer of friendship: a meal of pre-chewed (to prove it unpoisoned) monkey meat...
...Monkey" (his schoolboy name) Montgomery, who understandably likes to sign himself Montgomery of Alamein, has the same virtues as a writer that he had as a soldier: he says what he means and he means what he says. He could not have been any different if he had tried. Like many a famous soldier, he lost his early engagements: "My early life was a series of fierce battles, from which my mother invariably emerged the victor." Her approach to the problem posed by Bernard Law Montgomery was simple: "Go and find out what Bernard is doing and tell...
...Monkey Glands. Today's medicine, having taken up the challenge of infectious diseases (the greatest killers of the young down the ages) and conquered most of them, comes now to the challenge of the processes called "chronic diseases" -a term with an unfortunate implication of hopelessness. Today's medicine men neither seek nor expect miracles. They put no stock in parthenotherapy, such as David tried when he took the young Shunammite woman to his bed-though the idea won medical-intellectual backing in the 18th century, is now suggested obliquely by Lolita and Humbert Humbert. Neither have they...
...glimpse of Carmelita, the "Hermaphrodite." ("Ladies on one side of the curtain, please, and the gentlemen on the other. Wives may stand with their husbands.") Following the colonel himself past the animal cages was an olfactory experience. Living in a trailer with Devil, the two-nosed dog, a spider monkey named Snowball, and a dark, unhousebroken Capuchin named Herman can dose a man with strange scents as the weeks pass...