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...search of an abducted daughter. En route, she becomes the mistress of a ship's captain. Mutineers seize command and set her adrift in a small boat. It grinds ashore on the celebrated island, and within hours she is in the company of the white man and his mutilated servant, made tongueless by some cruel and nameless enemy...
There's also the flipside of this relationship, in which customers screw around with me. This only happened in the days when I was still docilely trying to fulfill my official role as a paid servant, long before I learned to twist customer relations to my own advantage...
...woman (Lucinda Childs) wanders across the front of the stage. Behind her a piece of white scrim is blown by a wind machine, representing the white wall of a terrific blizzard. A shrill voice booms through the P.A. system, then--Riiiip!--Frau von Kessel (Elizabeth Franz) and her servant tear the scrim and stick their torsos through it. It's supposed to look clever and mysterious, these two figures popping out of the waving whiteness, but it's just a cheap and cosmetic stunt...
...that I have not seen the "huge mansions surrounded by acres of rocky terrain" she frequented on her vacation. Apparently, everyone Miss Grossman spoke to had a Mexican maid and gardener. But after living in San Diego for 10 years I know only one family with a Mexican servant, and this family lives in Boston...
...story like "Our Lady of the Massacre" shows why some people like to call Carter a feminist. The story traces the life of another Moll Flanders, but focuses on her career in the New World as an indentured servant, rather than on her bawdy past. Carter avoids the literal picaresque by making the protagonist ironically self-aware of the conventions of 18th century narrative: "...my name is no clue as to my person nor my life as to my nature." Stripped of a name, the voice could be that of any period picaresque character, Moll Flanders or--Tom Jones...