Word: moonlight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ghana Second. The climax of the ceremony came that night, as the city lay bewitched in the jungle moonlight, and the Manhyia Palace flickered with torches. In a great field near by sat 27 paramount chiefs glittering with gold under huge, richly colored damask and velvet umbrellas. In a secret room inside the palace, observed by only six of his subjects, the King underwent the most sacred part of the tradition. After being ritually cleansed, he was seated briefly three times upon the Ashantis' sacred Golden Stool for the final ascension to power or "enstoolment." Only then...
...About H. Hatterr is a philosophical novel that deals, however obliquely, with such eternal conundrums as love, free will and appearance and reality. Its protagonist formulates no doctrines. But without ever quite losing his innocence, he does arrive at a visionary acceptance of all mortal matters as so much moonlight on the Ganges. "To hell with judging!" he concludes. "I have no opinions, I am beaten, and I just accept all this phenomena, this diamond-cut-diamond game, this human horseplay, this topsy-turvyism, as Life, as contrast...
...this sense, stripteasing is a halfway station on the road to prostitution. Indeed, the authors report that some strippers moonlight as whores at $35 to $100 a trick to supplement their incomes. The high rate of lesbianism among strippers-which the girls estimated at 50% to 75%-is further evidence that the stripper still nurses the feeling of paternal rejection she experienced in childhood. "Strippers go gay," said one of Skipper's and McCaghy's subjects, "because they have little chance to meet nice guys...
...invention of murder is even more ingenious: Cain learns how to kill Abel with the trial-and-error self-instruction of a man inventing the first wheel. All ends on a chorus of Moonlight Bay that seems to forecast with terrifying accuracy the sweetly ominous banality of millions of lives to come as sex and murder endlessly cycle...
...blackouts, since what energy they develop comes in part from the question, "What do they do next?" At the end of Serpent, for example, comes a surprise ending (which I will not reveal because it does not take place). As the actors sing, "We were sailing along, on moonlight bay," they drift out into the now ever-so-slightly per-spiring audience and simply sit down with them and fade away...