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...Castle of My Skin should make instructive reading for colonial administrators. Author Lamming remembers how things were, can still reproduce faithfully the political confusion of the islanders, as well as he can record the quarreling speech of a village strumpet: "I could give your story to the worl'. but people who is people don't do that sort o' thing. You ain't people. Baby Parker. You foot never touch shoe nor you head hat. You ain't people...
When Tereso hears that Fausta, a luscious widow with the face of a boy and the soul of a strumpet, will attend a fancy dress party, he decides that he too will go. This decision of state sets off a barrage of complications. Tereso's chief of police, worried that he may lose his post because his harsh methods are no longer needed in the thoroughly subdued country, decides to stage and then dramatically crush a phony attempt on the dictator's life. The "assassination" is to be undertaken by Perro, a police spy with a passion...
Nell brought to the feverish, pale-blooded court of Charles a throb of natural England. The tales of her fishwife eloquence in high places made her-in a phrase that was intended as an epithet but became an accolade-"the darling strumpet of the crowd." Once, for instance, she was so proud of her new petticoats that right in the presence of the French ambassador, she lifted them one by one. In line of duty, the Frenchman sat down and wrote a report to his foreign minister back home: "I never in all my life saw such thorough cleanliness, neatness...
...tune needed, said Librarian of Congress Luther Evans, is more military history. "As one of my colleagues at Columbia once said: 'In abandoning the drum-and-trumpet school of history, we adopted the bum-and-strumpet school...
Waltari's adventurer, Michael Bast, the bastard of a Finnish strumpet, has been brought up by a middle-aged witch who lies in bed at night and sighs with desire for the local hangman. In this school of adversity Michael learns little of life, grows up to be a sort of cross between Candide and Lanny Budd. He is the kind of young man who gets seduced time & again without quite realizing what is going on, who gives his money to rascals for safekeeping, who signs a paper which helps to prove his wife a witch because a nice...