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...Tastes Like Rabbit. Under the sizzling tropic sun on the way to the prison camp at Pudu, the sense of common humanity melted away; a man saved himself. When a sniveling, fear-crazed sergeant begged to be carried, Gunner Braddon refused, then watched passively while a Jap guard pumped five bullets into the sergeant's stomach at a foot's range. At Pudu, each meal consisted of a handful of pasty rice sometimes crawling with weevils. Whenever he could get them, Author Braddon ate cats, dogs, snakes, grubs, fungus and leaves. He notes that "snake tastes like gritty...
...despite all the precautions taken to protect the books, Miller's "Tropic of Capricorn" has been lost anyway...
...either in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts or throughout the country, are harbored in the "Inferno" for obvious reasons. All works on contraception are sent to the Cage, since they are banned in this State. The unexpurgated edition of D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterly's Lover," and Henry Miller's "Tropic of Capricorn," banned in the United States, find refuge here...
...just as they did in life. And some of them had the refreshing quality of being a bit oldfashioned. Among them: Oronzio Maldarelli's statue of a young girl, seated cross-legged on her pedestal like some dreaming nymph; Doris Rosenthal's Gauguin-like study of a tropic beauty drowsing in a chair; Waldo Peirce's Renoirish painting of a mother and child happily basking in the streaming seashore...
...Paulo is the world's fastest-growing major city; since 1890, its population has shot from 65,000 to 2,250,000. Located squarely on the Tropic of Capricorn some 5,000 miles south and east of New York, it is the southern hemisphere's most dynamic community, the economic powerhouse of the vast republic of Brazil. A palm-studded metropolis, exuberantly expanding under the leadership of some of the world's hardest-working, toughest-trading enterprisers, it is a kind of tropical Chicago...