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...meet your next tour guide Jimmy.” After promising that “we’ll get to know each other very well,” Jimmy delivers the next two minutes or so of the tour. Strobe lights flash as the motionless figure of a slave girl named Candy insists that she is not a witch. A goblin and a cat made out of felt stare at us sadly...
...events in the Buddha story appear in "Buddha" like cornerstones on which Tezuka constructs his own fantastic palace of myth and philosophy. The first volume, during which prince Siddhartha is born, barely concerns itself with this event. Instead the majority of the narrative follows Chapra, a talented slave child who hides his caste to become the adopted son of a general. Along the way he befriends Tatta, a cheeky little boy of the lowliest pariah caste. Tatta has the remarkable ability to take over the minds of animals, making him the target of intense interest by a young monk, Naradatta...
During the first two volumes Tezuka particularly explores the injustice of the caste system, and by implication, all human hierarchies. Thus, the second volume opens with the young Siddhartha being told he cannot play with the toys of the slave children. The sickly child, who frequently dozes off into meditative states, becomes increasingly obsessed with the inevitability of death and the cruel arbitrariness of the caste system. An older Tatta, the mischievous pariah, reappears and takes the prince away from his palace of luxury to experience the real world. There he meets Migaila, a bandit that he falls in love...
...accolade, but there were many more great novels in his pen, foremost among them Life and Times of Michael K (1983), the first of his two Booker prizewinners, and Foe (1986), the story of an Englishwoman who, stranded on a desert island, struggles desperately to communicate with a black slave whose tongue has been cut out. On its face, the novel is a retelling of the Robinson Crusoe fable, but in its depths I discerned something else entirely, the most profound book ever written about race relations in a society where whites were often separated from blacks by an abyss...
...Sometimes”). You’re still relevant because your “Satisfaction” striptease is forever in my Shared Folder and fantasy file, because my stomach still plays Double Dutch when I hear “I’m a Slave 4 U” and envision the shocking pink lace on leather. It’s the videos, the performances, the packaging that bring us to our knees and you to the pages of Forbes. Props for losing the brown before we lost our collective erection...