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...Communists also use dogs and, for that matter, a whole zoo of combat animals. They occasionally drop cats into tunnels and spider holes to divert allied scout dogs. They have been known to stampede water buffalo into American defensive wire and mines. They like to leave snakes and spiders in bunkers and underground complexes in order to keep U.S. troopers from investigating them. Not long ago, a Special Forces patrol came upon an ingenious booby trap that consisted of a basket filled with poisonous snakes. Its writhing contents would have cascaded on a man tripping the wire...
Even fewer would get such great delight from watching television cartoons ranging from 'George of the Jungle" to "Spider Man" the morning before a crucial away contest...
...wants to hit and run; she wants a "meaningful relationship." He plies her with a Coke. She dizzies him with quotes from Erich Fromm. They dance together as if a referee had told them to break clean. He chases her until she catches him. But who was the spider...
...struggles of a young writer who lives on a houseboat moored in the Thames. Separated from his wife and child, mired in an unpromising literary career, he tries to find himself by casting off the paraphernalia of modern life. His boat turns out to be rot-ridden and spider-struck. Every night cats and rats perform a dance of death on his cabin roof. Worse, the free spirits whom he expected to find among other houseboat owners turn out to be frauds or escapists...
Skull Wires. It is just barely possible that Marie and Spider are the targets of the satire, and not society, but the author's tone does not support this; it is so obvious that it doesn't support anything. It may also be argued that this is all part of a subtle master plan, as when novels are made boring to prove that the exquisitely bored characters that languish in them really find life boring. The danger in such cases is that one original, strikingly phrased thought could spoil the whole book. That pitfall has been avoided here...