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...itinerant magician. They slept and nearly froze in a Kansas scrap-car lot; they lived on bananas in Florida; they starved; they split. Elly played club dates and even a carnival-all without recognition. She failed in the Catskills. In a Manhattan boite she appeared briefly with Raconteur Jean Shepherd. "Relax," he told her. "These are the good old days...
Grass is much given to parody. Hitler's military jargon, for instance, is spoofed in delusive GHQ commands sent out to recapture the Führer's lost German shepherd, Prinz, as the Third Reich crumbles. Sample: "On the JüterbogTorgau line, projected antitank trenches are replaced by Führerdogtraptrenches." Often the bristliest bits in Grass's prose derive from what critics refer to as "thing magic" (Dingmagie), those long inventories of physical objects that Grass compiles to retrieve German from abstraction and the swarms of technical terms he uses, mostly derived from...
Though she had been willing to go anywhere and do anything Merilee asked of her, converting to Vegetarianism had been an uphill struggle for Girl. To learn to love withered zukini fried in soybean oil, Girl had to fight against the whole history and heritage of the German Shepherd race. But like her mistress, Girl was not long of memory and as soon as Merilee turned her back Girl would turn up her wet nose at the detestable goop. Then Merilee would have to go next door and borrow pig fat to pour over Girl's veggies. Alfred of course...
...Flarbs could not be budged from the occupied Building, though all Members of the Colony were experienced Shepherds. Our Mentor, coincidentally, had happened upon the scene at this critical Point, searching a part-time Job. He succeeded, using a Danny-the-Red Button tied to a Stick, in leading the Flarbs unprotesting out to Pasture, and was hired at once for their Shepherd...
...Akenfield, plodding, unsentimen-talized detail accumulates, suddenly evoking the devotion of a lifetime's hard work. A shepherd loses himself in telling exactly how he trains a sheep dog ("Once you have taught him stillness, you're getting somewhere"). An orchard foreman navigates his way through the niceties of pruning apple trees. A wheelwright remembers how he used to build wagons ("For making the hubs we always chose wych-elm") and paint them ("The blue rode well in the corn"). The village veterinarian, a sensitive man, contemplates the tortuous ethics of "factory farms," where pigs and chickens...