Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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White's The Cage, set in an extravagantly funny frame of tangled step-ladders and window-casings, concerns an encounter between a stranger and the residents of a thoroughly inhabited apartment house. The stranger has assumed responsibility for the continued existence of a squirrel, who has a careless habit of...
But not only Jack likes Victoriana. Of similar affections are rats, for whom Jack has no affection. Indeed, he has a mania, one might say. Where Jack's mania takes him is hard to tell. When at last an exterminator succeeds in catching a few rats, the rats start killing...
"I wonder where it will all end," mused Vag as he grappled with the problem of having two feet, two shoes and two rubbers, curiously divided into rights and lefts. Rubber days were never a happy experience for Vag. He always felt surly, humanly frail, and totally unsuccessful with Radcliffe...
Vag put down his pen and quit taking notes. He heard no more of the lecture, he was too involved in the task of working his rubbers off his feet. He wiggled discreetly in his chair, pushing one heel against the other until, finally, his Cordovans stood naked to the...
We are hardly able to keep up with Ted Spear. He does not stop in the workshops, and he talks on the run, quickly and crisply. One remembers only the shop preparing pork cutlets. Women work here. Silent, unsmiling, strained faces. Their hands automatically are raised and then lowered, again...