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...knows which side is sol, or as a cat Knows which gray spot is mouse, or when, in Boris...
Then there was Rose O'Neill, a plumpish pixy who invented the Kewpie doll. After a wall switch broke, the lights in her house stayed on uninterruptedly for 16 years. Rosie had a favorite cat that entered her bedroom each morning through a private little six-inch door and dutifully placed a dead bird at the foot...
...missionaries and government officials had tried to stop. District officers stumbled onto fanatic ritual meetings in forest clearings. Later, word spread that tens of thousands of Kikuyu were taking fierce oaths of loyalty to a strange creed called Mau Mau, sealing the bond by drinking blood and waving cat corpses in the air as they sat facing the holy mountain...
...Novelist Hunt sees it, the ideal state's biggest taxpayers should be its biggest voters. The real fat-cat taxpayers would each get seven votes, the lower 40% brack-eteers only a vote apiece. But Author Hunt defends his system not as plutocracy but as incomeocracy: "It is the taxpayer who gets the bonus, not the rich man . . . It's like a corporation: the greatest stockholders have the greatest votes." In Alpaca, it all comes out like this: " 'Will you help me further this plan for just government? Will you do me the honor of working with...
...novel, The Wind (TIME, April 13). His current book is a little less powerful and somewhat more murky. Author Simon's moody, fitful sentences blow on for a thousand words or so before subsiding. He qualifies each thought, hedges each qualification, follows divergent ideas out of sight through cat's cradles of parentheses and dashes. He is as fond as Faulkner of the present participle. When it seems that he must stop, affix a period and begin a new sentence with "He said . . .", Simon merely drops a comma to catch his breath and continues with "saying . . ." If Simon...