Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tone humanizing his characters, satirizing them and altering enough details to make the heroic (into the comic. His Scheherezade the calls her Sherry) is a student at the university and a partisan of the women's movement she would like nothing better than to disrupt the king's indiscriminate slaughter of her sisters, but she has no plan at all, until a bald headed genie from the future (Barth himself) rivers and, having read A Thousand and One Nights, is able to supply her with the stories...
What sort of creature could commit such an act? Could the seemingly random slaughter have any kind of meaning...
Everything is indeed up to date in Kansas City. They manage to offer a technique of slaughter there that is novel even for this age of mayhem. The boys at the meat-packing plant resent the intrusion of the boss's agent from Chicago, so they send him through the grinder, pack him up and ship him back home as a string of wieners...
...sentence reduced and everyone else involved in the massacre and the ensuing cover-up either acquitted or not even brought to trial, "mass-murders have been welcomed back into the population." She adds: "Now any member of the armed forces in Indochina can, if he so desires, slaughter a reasonable number of babies, confident that the public will acquit him, a) because they support the war and the Army, or b) because they don't." To be sure, the irony was obvious enough when both the left (the war is inherently immoral) and the right (Calley was only following...
...Hebrew and English. "And so I admit very frankly what I have done." The revolution will go on, he insisted. "In Washington and New York, the houses of simple folk must be destroyed. That is how they will be able to feel the sweeping torrent of world revolution. The slaughter of human beings is inevitable...