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...blood-curdling "true-story" prison tales have come out of experiences, real and embellished, gained in France's famed penal colony in French Guiana, on the northeast coast of South America. Horror stories deluxe have told of men working stark naked in the sizzling tropical jungle, of lust, greed, murder, homosexuality in prison cages crammed with killers, rapists, thieves. Other tales have told of years of maddening isolation in "bear pits" on one of the three Iles du Salut (variously translated as "Safety Isles" and "Isles of Salvation''), ten to twelve miles off the mainland...
...they make the world sound as bad as Hell once did. In Luckypenny, Bruce Marshall (Father Malachy's Miracle) demonstrates this development with a sermon thriller hinging on three themes : 1) that "rich men have been too selfish," which in turn makes the poor "unable to govern their greed," 2) that "mechanical invention has progressed out of all ratio to spiritual perfection," 3) that "men no longer believe...
...people responsible for a situation of this kind are the merchants and jobbers in America who prefer to buy things manufactured abroad at cheaper prices in their greed for profit...
...shame his money-grubbing brother the penniless Laurent takes his first 1,000 francs and horrifies him by tearing it up and throwing it into the Marne. Not for a long time can Laurent steel himself to confess that while he was making his grandiose speech about poetry and greed, he was quietly pocketing 500 of the francs he pretended to have thrown away...
...modern world Swift's egomania is translated into "two nations, the rich and the poor, walking to their death in opposed hordes, [bound together by] a cannibalistic greed, hatred, and fear...