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Pretty soon Leroy finds himself in Los Angeles, shacked up with a pretty union maid (Lonette McKee), working as a painter for an arm of the same agribiz octopus that chased him away from home, and talking more like this than like thay-uht. He's not a hero, but he's a gifted survivor and a natural-born fink. In return for forgetting what he knows of an assassination attempt by a company thug on the union leader, Leroy is promoted to foreman, and he loses touch with his worker friends in La Causa as quickly...
Worthy berates himself for his one failure, in the aftermath of his many struggles against the system, to notice the dangers of citywide expansionist trends. Slowly, as the "tentacles" of the octopus reached into the rooms of his life, he came to realize that only a society which does not permit expansionist institutions to abuse and manipulate its citizens will not abuse and manipulate the citizens of another country...
...Katsuki '80, a native of Japan, had more unusual cravings. She said she misses dishes such as raw fish and octopus tentacles and complains that the rice is not sticky enough here...
...bringing to earth of the gods; it marks the era of United Fruit's demythification. This book shows that the times has passed in which the company and its work could only be described in fiction or polemic. It is time for a real historian to start dissecting the Octopus...
...knows what we'll find when we start to cut into the octopus's belly?" he said...