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...through my mind. The circle and the line, female and male, continuity and transcendence, concussion and resilience, contiguity and interstice, the breaks and bridges of this life, comedy and parody.... But the large mouthed bass dispatched this comical revery. I had trouble leaving the large-mouthed bass, wanting to pluck him out and fry him. He judiciously kept to the back wall...
When a woman is forced to change diapers and wash dishes and pluck her eyebrows, she is forced to become less than a person, she is forced to lead less than a life. If love is a relationship between people, then no love is possible in a society that requires half of the society to be servants and whores to the other half. No love is possible in a society that makes every man feel that a woman's idea is a challenge to his masculinity...
Eventually, Defoe's cannibals appear in Tournier's book, too, intending to eat a captive. Crusoe II frightens them off with gunpowder and English pluck, names the captive Friday, and sets about turning him into a proper British slave. He succeeds to the extent that Friday learns English and performs complicated chores. But the Negro-Indian half-caste will go no further; he refuses to be a black Englishman. Although he is tireless, he is not diligent. He is clever, but not rational. For him, the Church of England, punitive ditch digging and goatskin trousers are merely...
...going to back down," Knowles said. "That's what they want me to do." One Senate head count showed that no more than 25 members opposed the nomination; another estimate put the opposition at ten. Finch assured Nixon that his appointee had the pluck and wit to ride out the storm. Meanwhile, the A.M.A.'s lobby operation was not idle. Hints began to circulate that Knowles proposed socialized medicine. Congressmen found that the A.M.A. was even propagandizing their family doctors...
When Swedish Starlet Britt Ekland, 26, first announced her intention to divorce peripatetic Comedian Peter Sellers, 43, she pleaded a case that would pluck at any mother's heartstrings. "You can't imagine," she wailed, "how exhausting it is transporting a baby, a nanny and all your possessions all over the world." So saying, Britt left Peter and began transporting baby, nanny and possessions all over the world-off to New York for the filming of Britt's latest movie, Stiletto, then down to Puerto Rico for more shooting, then back to London for the Sellers...