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...murders-albeit inadvertently-the man who turned his oldest sister Concettina into a whore, chops the body up and ships it north in three suitcases...
...well as others'. During his long quest for a proper bride, the astrologer rejected all women who could not pass the ordeal by horoscope. The stars told him that one candidate "will ... bear outward in her behavior a fair show, but she will play the whore privily." He never called on her again...
...chief preoccupation is sex. There is a young boy in the ward named Billy Bibbit who has never had sex and has, apparently, been driven to psychosis and suicide attempts by a repressive mother. His case is the one cure that McMurphy attempts with "alternate psychology." He brings a whore into the ward and pushes Billy into a room with her for the night. In the morning, Billy's stutter is gone. The incident is typical of the instant cure approach to mental health that Forman is purveying. A good game of B-ball and a "good fuck...
Pursuing him to Halifax in 1863, Adele became a woman possessed. At first she claimed to be Pinson's cousin. Then, finding him, she begged and threatened, even offered him money to pay his debts. She stalked him on rendezvous with other women, sent him a whore for the night as a gift of her love, dressed as a man in evening clothes to track him down at a fancy ball, wrecked his engagement to another woman. During this time she endured hysterical nightmares of Leopoldine's drowning. She kept Leopoldine's jewels...
...17th century might have knelt before the reliquary of Mary Magdalene's foot in the church of Sts. Celsus and Julian. To him it would have been an object dense in its reality and hallowed in association: one of the actual feet that propelled the repentant whore of Judea to her meeting with the Saviour, a direct link across a vaguely understood gulf of time to a crucial mythic event. Its apparent value as evidence was large...