Word: spit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Freudian" slips in mis-writing dates on letters--Blotner presents all of the minute details as pedantic facts. Even the events that cry out for psychological interpretation--Faulkner's wife's suicide attempt on their honeymoon, his younger brother's death in an airplane stunt, his debilitating drinking--are spit out undigested, with the unexplored mention that they may have had psychological consequences...
...catastrophe doesn't rule out heroism--in fact, even Colonel Quoc has his moments of humanity. "I'm not really so terrible," he tells an American colleague. "Sometimes when I pass a beggar I don't spit, and maybe even give him a coin." Fighter Kim, tortured by Americans determined to find out who blew up their friends the week before, strangles a companion whose capacity for resistance he doubts, slits his own wrists and lies down quietly to die. And Grandmother Pan survives the catastrophe to rummage among the rubble for her husband's legs. Maybe in certain circumstances...
...about town, the conventioneer. When the time comes to pay the check, he would do little things, 'How much should I give you?' He might make an issue about it. I did say to one, 'Don't play God with me. Do what you want.' I would spit it out, my resentment--that he dares make me feel I'm operating only...
...acts like a henchman for a Malay lumber dealer who tries to bribe a librarian to say the book he wants to borrow is a good one. A Salvation Army preacher (name unknown) whose skin is so thick "it bends anything you stick into it" lets a man spit in his face as a condition to a donation, and later shoots himself, uttering somebody else's last words. These people have the poetic, imaginative quality of other Brecht characters, but the fantasy Chicago of this early Brecht play doesn't confront the issues of the usual Brechtian world...
...brought from a walrus-like B.U. fan with a waxed mustache seated directly behind me. Bringing the bedroom to the Garden, he moaned and bellowed as if near orgasm, "Ah, ah, ah go B.U." I preferred their old cheer because an organ, which used to lead their cheer, cannot spit...