Word: voyeurism
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Steinberg knows enough about the characters of the Bible to put them down with learned insight. Joshua, he says, was "the first real pushy prophet"; Lot was "the first Biblical voyeur"; Jezebel "was immortalized by Frankie Laine." As for the Jonah story, "the Gentiles-as is their wont from time to time-threw the Jew overboard." If Steinberg debunks God as well, it is not the real God but the "pompous image of him created by the clergy." Solemnly, Steinberg intones: "The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh away. The Lord God is an Indian giver." When suffering Job calls...
From that point, the novel jumps forward 18 years to Semple's recovery and his release from the state asylum. Shortly afterwards, he has a chance meeting with Hunt. In the inevitable, violent conclusion, Hunt dies a fitting voyeur's death by defenestration...
...finest and riskiest poems is "The Fiend," which Dickey talked about in Richard Tillinghast's English C section. This poem depicts a voyeur in action...
...manuals in the world, about married love, manipulation . . . you come to the conclusion that society wants you to have a certain kind of sexual life and sexual response. But that may or may not be the one that you do have. The man in "The Fiend" is a voyeur--as I say, don't knock it if you ain't tried it. I thought of the fiend as one who had come to a tacit understanding with himself that he needed this, no matter what it led to--ridicule, disgrace or even electrocution. The sex instinct is that strong...
...latent homosexual. The unknowing object of his love is a virginal enlisted man who, in turn, is shyly in love with Taylor. Nightly, as Brando wanders outside, the soldier enters his house, steals up to Taylor's bedroom and watches her snooze until dawn; then the tame voyeur flees back to the barracks...