Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TUSHIM'S TALE--beginning with Cuscat's nativity, following him through his early spiritual indoctrination from his parents, Antun and Rosha, and later from the Dominicans, and concluding with his maturity as a visionary and revolutionary leader--unified the various historical, anthropological and folk sources which the novelist consulted and which he includes as notes at the back of the book. Two of the most haunting scenes in the novel have analogues in this source material. One, recorded by Harvard anthropologist Evon Vogt, is a myth from a town near Chamula, which explains how a bull was present when...
...vines or eating holes in Spartan boys there is much to be said about foxes. Foxes are smart. Foxes are vulpine. Foxes have pointy noses and an air of unassailable RED FOX sagacity. There are three great books about foxes. Probably the best known is Beatrix Potter's Tale of Mister Tod, in which the protagonist proves to be fastidious but cowardly. A second, now unhappily out of print, is Alexander Sturm's The Problem Fox, a sly cartoon biography of a precocious animal named August who solves food mazes and learns to spell his name. Canadian Writer...
...tale ended at a fork in a road...
...nine will go their separate ways, possibly on the bus home retelling just once more the tale they've told a 100 times already: and when its time to hit the crib they'll take off, neatly fold up, and tuck away the fondest memory they've every known--a maroon rowing shirt with a white Harvard...
Straw Dogs is neither a glorification of violence nor a celebration of rape. It's a simple morality tale about the acceptance of responsibility--responsibility for one's commitments (for example, in marriage) and responsibility for one's fellow human beings (including, in this case, the village idiot). It is the acceptance of this responsibility that marks the transition into adulthood, not the resort to violence. And it is this lesson that both husband and wife must learn when faced with the attack of the local Cornwall ruffians. Epps mentions only the defense carried out by the husband, and thereby...