Word: slavers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tied to the Anchor. British law stipulated that a ship could not be held unless caught with slaves actually aboard. If chased, hard-pressed slavers often ran just long enough to kill and jettison their human cargo. One British slaver, Captain Homans of the brig Brillante, was caught at nightfall. Reportedly he tied 600 slaves to the links in his anchor chain, which was loosely lashed alongside. When, at dawn, he saw that escape was impossible, the anchor-and the human evidence-was sent rattling into the deep...
...hall. When the old painter dies of a heart attack (induced, say the neighbors, by too much Cecilia), it is Dino's turn. What follows is the old sexual war that Moravia has refought too many times. In scenes so explicit as to make publishers of cheap paperbacks slaver for the reprint rights, Dino dies a thousand deaths on his cross of flesh. Characteristically, Moravia says that all this is simply a way to show that Dino is trying to achieve "reality"' by rediscovering the human touch. But when Cecilia takes on another lover, Dino is stuck...
...early reading consisted of: "Dostolevsky propped up by a copy of Confessions of a White Slaver." She often read in the boughs of a large tree and picked figs from neighboring branches...