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...million tons of grains, there was a serious shortage of food in the cities. This could be partly explained by the fouled-up transportation system. Under the forced industrialization drive, trucks and trains that might have transported food were kept busy rushing from place to place with loads of pig iron ineptly made in thousands of primitive village smelters...
...flight from this Mexican Egypt to give birth to Manuel. From infancy he is one apart. He has a "disease" not quite epilepsy, but something that sometimes makes him unaware of things around him. At nine he whittles a wooden nail to wound his palm. He smears himself with pig's blood. In episodes intended to echo Jesus' sojourn in the temple, he learns the ancient Nahuatl language and mythology...
...interest in Zhivago is political. Inevitably, the book has been used as a weapon in the cold war. Inevitably, Moscow's refusal to let Pasternak accept the Nobel Prize and his denunciation by the hired hacks of the Animal Farm ("A black sheep in a good flock," "a pig," "a snake") have alienated intellectuals outside Russia-even India's Nehru protested directly to Khrushchev. But to assess the book primarily in political terms would be making a major error about Doctor Zhivago and about Boris Pasternak. The bitter criticism of Marxism cannot be missed, and Pasternak obviously wrote...
...Pig's cheek, boiled to the crumbling point and then pressed into a mold until it looks like red marble...
With his artistic skill and interest growing, he graduated and took a course in education. Then he had to make a choice between taking a job with a London film company or returning to high school as a guinea pig in an art education program which was just getting under way in Natal...