Word: scorpion
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...substance of The Towers of Silence is reminiscent of the first novel, The Jewel in the Crown (1966), and of its successor, The Day of the Scorpion (1968). The rape is reinvestigated, and there is a restaging of a wedding already seen in the second novel. The bride, apparently a pukka Englishwoman, senses the unsolidity and perhaps the immorality of the English presence in India, and goes temporarily...
...SCORPION GOD by WILLIAM GOLDING 178 pages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
...soldiers with a spear; the princess is fascinated; he unsettles her lewdly with suggestions of non-incest; he talks of dominion over all the king doms of the valley, and has the wit, while breaking tradition, to wrap him self in new myth; he is the quick, stinging Scorpion God. She is tempted. Egypt begins...
Henrik Ibsen kept a live scorpion in an empty beer glass on his writing table. "From time to time the brute would ail; then I would throw in a piece of ripe fruit, on which it would cast itself in a rage and eject its poison; then it was well again." As usual in an Ibsen scene, opera glasses are not needed to recognize the symbolism. Tiny, armored, venomous, Ibsen was an ailing spirit whose dramas stung the 19th century's conscience and gave European theater a new seriousness. After launching into poetic tragedy (Brand, Peer Gynt), Ibsen imported...
...handsome, forceful young woman named Suzannah Thoresen. After only two meetings, Ibsen begged her to marry him and make him "something great in the world." From the first, says Meyer, it was a marriage of creative convenience. Day after day, Suzannah packed him off to commune with his scorpion, whipped up his flagging spirits, shooed his time-wasting friends away. "Ibsen had no steel in his character," she said flatly. "I gave it to him." The steel soon made its mark. In 1863, Ibsen wrote The Pretenders, his first popular success. On the strength of it, after wangling...