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Within this array of leftist activity hide the underground revolutionaries. They strike and burrow underground again in such places as the working-class neighborhoods of Los Angeles and the Mission District in San Francisco or the squalid slums of East Oakland and Sacramento. In addition, many terrorists are believed to be hiding among the students and transient street people of Berkeley's South Campus section. Furtive meetings between the underground and aboveground activists undoubtedly take place in the area's many coffeehouses, bars and parking lots. Other good meeting places are the parks known to students as People...
...pure hero worship. Yet the disciple never really followed the work, which scorns sentimentality and shuns anthropomorphism. Lockley was apparently born with a seventh sense -of wonder-and has expended most of it on rabbits, which he has studied in every imaginable sort of enclosure, even including a real burrow with specially installed infra-red lighting and glass sides. Thus observed, the symbols of timidity are revealed as citizens in a complex social structure, full of dominant and submissive roles, populated with kings, queens and knaves. The butt of ceaseless fertility jokes turns out to be the master-or rather...
...Adams' creatures are not entirely without foundation. The rabbit possesses uniquely repellent characteristics, among them the habit of consuming its own fecal pellets. But it also behaves in a manner that casts doubt upon the singularity of Homo sapiens. Young mated rabbits, for example, begin in a modest burrow but as their social standing in the community rises, they seek better quarters. Bucks are serially monogamous - with sporadic liaisons, possible when an attractive surplus doe hops into view. The couple's offspring are welcome to stay in the burrow after adolescence - provided that they remain docile and accept...
Nobody could be clearer about the incomprehensibility of the world than Franz Kafka. Novels such as The Trial and The Castle, stories such as "The Metamorphosis," "The Hunger Artist" and "The Burrow" are the Grimm's fairy tales of the modern cloven spirit. Ordinary men awake to find they are helpless insects, or are found guilty of unknown crimes by unknown judges. One man wastes away in a cage, not because he is being starved but because he has never found the kind of food he might want. No grails are to be found in Kafka, no word...
...Bobby (Ned Beatty), fattest and least fit of the group, takes one look around the deep woods and says: "I think this is where everything finishes up." The country folk are suspicious, violent, many inbred to the point of idiocy. They watch the city men like weasels guarding a burrow...