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...publishing, the year's most notable were Henry Miller and Kenneth Patchen. Miller continued with Michael Fraenkel his extraordinary correspondence about Hamlet ($3) and published The Colossus of Maroussi ($3.50), a freewheeling book on Greece. Patchen's privately printed The Journal of Albion Moonlight ($5) was a nightmarish image of the state of the human soul in the year...
...their fantastic, nightmarish extreme U.S. tabloids never surpassed the strange journalism of Macfadden's late Graphic and Hearst's early Mirror under the editorship of Emile Gauvreau, a brilliant, unhappy, sensitive, tough, crippled. French-Canadian-Irish, Connecticut-born newspaperman who now raises goats and chickens on a small farm near Philadelphia...
Life on April Farm became nightmarish: When Garland tried to organize the colonists into an association, the charter was refused on the grounds that the colonists' views on marriage were "detrimental to the public welfare." All sorts of stories about the dead baby began to circulate; the women fled, taking the children with them. Garland was arrested on a charge of adultery. The dead baby's mother helped with the prosecution. He went to jail, served his sentence, dropped out of sight...
...been snooping around the Near East since 1893. Born of a Cologne banking family, short, fat, bouncy, shoe-button-eyed, he has agreeable manners and an Arctic mustache. A crack archeologist, he discovered and dug up at Tell Halaf in Upper Mesopotamia (now Iraq) a temple-palace stuffed with nightmarish, colossal statuary carved by the Subaraeans, a people flourishing around 3500 B.C. Off & on, the digging continued for more than 18 years: his treasures were split between museums in Berlin and Aleppo...
About a month ago a small Free French force left the great swamp known as Lake Chad (see map, p. 23), heading north. They passed through nightmarish, weird, surrealistic terrain-along an enormous dry river bed, past sudden oval valleys with lush black soil floors, across a stark desert of slippery sand and sharp stones, across an eroded tableland, through the magnificent mountain peaks (highest: 11,200 ft.) of Tibesti, along the edges of 1,000 ft.-precipices looking down on valleys full of bulrushes, across wastes of crumbling volcanic rock. They drank from sweet wells and pools bitter...