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...Cats and Snakes. The regime is lifting some of the rigid restraints on the arts and letters. It has even permitted a modest amount of criticism, though journalists can still be tried and jailed for publishing "antinational propaganda." It is best to keep criticism obscure, as in the case of Eighteen Texts, a book recently published in Athens. Though Greece is not specifically mentioned, it is plainly the subject. The opening contribution, a poem by Nobel Prizewinner George Seferis, recounts an old Cypriot tale in which a bunch of cats (read colonels) wipe out an invasion of snakes (read Communists...
...turn me inside out, you won't be able to find a drop of ink," he says. Huang normally smothers his meals in red peppers (the Hupei version of catsup), but in his Canton days he did develop a taste for a few southern delicacies, notably snake broth and dog meat...
...essentially a loose society of sketches that enlarge a theme. The World's Illusion is objectified as Hollywood, and Hollywood is personified in Faye Greener, a bitch every man in the book is after. There are no full-fleshed characters, but the book is scaled like a snake with glittering little momentary selves: studio Eskimos, horseparlor dwarfs, rentable Texans and a legion of sad-eyed nobodies who have "come to California to die." Eros is their ethos, violence their pastime. They drift toward a climax in which a holy idiot stomps a depraved child actor and in turn...
...What are you eating? Eve: Oh, this? It's an apple. God: Eve, I told you . . . lay off the apples. Eve: Well, the snake said it was O.K. And besides, I was hungry . . . God: Eve, you may eat any of the Calavo fruits. But one more apple...
...bedroom community, with its $35,000 Spanish-style houses and stucco split-levels, has been a weird suburban anxiety. Twelve families living along Wright Avenue have killed 27 rattlers so far this year, and as one housewife said, "It's hardly even summer." One man found a snake coiled on the front seat of his car. The snakes slither across manicured lawns, nest in the coolness of garages and patios. Reid Waddell, a 42-year-old butcher, bent down to pick up his evening paper and saw a rattler side-winding across his driveway...