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...Judge Larner and the all-white jury that convicted him must hope in the interest of their own physical safety that Hurricane be kept behind bars. No mediating agent stands between Hurricane's sense of injustice and the outside world. When as a boy a white drunk tried to rape a member of his gang, Rubin responded by slashing the man's head open. When Hurricane was in custody and a cop called him "nigger," it was a reflex to smash the man's face...
...RAPE OF THE NILE...
...campaign of 1798-99 that helped launch the 19th century wave of Nile plunder. One of the expedition members most responsible was Vivant Denon, an artist and writer whose illustrated La Description de L'Egypte excited Europe's curiosity about the pharaohs' treasure. Unfortunately, though The Rape of the Nile reproduces dozens of Denon's paintings-and hundreds of other illustrations-only the dust jacket is in color...
...moves, then, from one kind of madness to another. A friendly doctor gets him bounced from the hospital-where, overcome by months of tethered ardor, he tried to rape a woman patient-and into the army. For Pasqualino, the second World War is a survival course which requires all his back-alley resources. He fakes being wounded by stealing the bandages from a dead soldier, thus avoiding assignment to the Russian front. He deserts, gets caught by Nazis and is imprisoned in a concentration camp where dead bodies hang from the ceiling and litter the floor like parched, trampled leaves...
...wholesale slaughter in the concentration camp becomes an awful elaboration of Pasqualino's butchery back in Naples. His squirming on top of the commandant is a punishment and a parody of the asylum rape, as well as of the way Pasqualino would have women back home-usually by force...