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...will sip this ration either cold from a dish or warm from a small, painless bite it makes in a convenient extremity of its sleeping provider. Contrary to Draculan film fantasies, the vampire does not fly but tiptoes to its midnight snack in a semierect position. Judging from Miss Leen's photos of the procedure, the creature bears far more resemblance to Lon Chancy hamming up his wolf-man act than to Bela Lugosi spiraling in for an elegant neck shot. Aside from the remote possibility of contracting rabies (bats, like most mammals, can transmit the disease), the only...
Gargoyles. There are bats that feed exclusively on fruit and bats that lap nectar from flowers. The bulldog bat of Central and South America catches fish in its claws, an act Miss Leen has caught in a series of strobe-light photographs. Most bats, however, feed on insects. And "most" adds up to quite a few billions. In addition, the order Chiroptera (Greek for hand-wing) contains the second largest number of species among mammals. First are the rodents, to whom bats bear only a remote taxonomical resemblance...
Exterminators. The guano bats of Mexico and the U.S. Southwest prefer caves, where their bodies carpet the walls and ceilings in quivering fur and leatherous membrane. Their droppings provide one of the world's richest fertilizers. The air in guano caves is stifling. Miss Leen recalls having once been overcome by the ammoniated atmosphere, but not before taking some unusual baby pictures...
...Miss Howard's creations are not as sharply drawn as Jane Austen's, partly because their problems rise out of peculiarly modern conditions-social fluidity, moral uncertainty, the increased freedom of personal choice. Where there is no norm against which behavior or motives can be measured, the novel of manners degenerates into an attack on the world at large-as in "black humor"-or into a series of satirical character sketches. Something in Disguise leans toward the latter...
...well. The story of an Atlantic crossing between Vera Cruz and Bremerhaven in the 1930s, it is a parable of the growth of Nazism and a chilling view of human nature. The wayward characters are so often compared to animals that they seem to comprise a floating zoo. Miss Porter has often said, "I am a passenger on that ship," and it is understandable that when the book's heroine finally leaves the ship by launch, she turns her back to it and never once looks over her shoulder...