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...night the temperature dropped to 15°, and six monkeys died. Sympathetic townspeople took most of the remaining monkeys as household pets. In February, a ravenous elephant ate the roof of his pen, and died of wood splinters in his stomach. The other two elephants died from eating the straw coverings of wine bottles, which was the only food the people could find in sufficient bulk for such huge appetites. Grutzius buried the elephants, and by selling their tusks for ivory got enough to buy food for man and beast for a few more weeks. But by winter...
...despite his troubles with Francoise.* Erotic, nostalgic, satiric, philosophic and clownish by turns, he shows bafflement, bitterness, faithlessness, a saving sense of humor and an even healthier sense of mystery. He can limn a breast or buttock, an evil grin or a sorrowful eye, with one stroke of his pen, but he never stands on skill alone, and even scorns perfection. A devoted artist, he keeps showing by purposeful slips and elisions that art is a matter of illusion. "What's my line?" he seems to ask. and never waits for an answer...
They were obviously energetic. In fact, they were determined. When they swept through the dining room door, the one in blue tweed had a card table tucked under one arm, a bunch of placards under the other, and a ballpoint pen in each hand. His friend were a dark brown jacket, glasses, and a briefcase. He walked very fast...
...letters it said, "Scared to sign? That's the McCarthy issue!" On the left of the table were mounted newspaper clippings, with appropriate lines marked in heavy red pencil. On the right was a pile of signed petitions, in the middle a fresh, blank petition and a ball point pen. And squarely behind the table sat the one in brown--ready to educate the public...
...legions of Martian midgetmen, has just about monopolized the literature of fantasy. But two new books roll out the old-fashioned magic carpet. The Visionary Novels of George Macdonald (containing two stories, Lilith and Phantasies) are by a 19th century Scottish Presbyterian who deserted the pulpit for the pen, and The Fellowship of the Ring is by J.R.R. Tolkien, a pipe-smoking, 20th century Oxford philology professor. Both books are fashioned as fairy tales for adults, and fueled by strong and unorthodox imaginations...