Talk:The Manchurian Candidate

Pages references, quotes, info, etc., from the book, to incorporate into the article eventually

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Anent: Raymond Shaw:

• "The sergeant's rage-daubed face would shine like a ripped-out heart flung onto stones in the moonlight" -- page 30

• "The sergeant's account of his past was ancient in its form and confusingly dramatic, as perhaps would have been a game of three-level chess between Richard Burbage and Sacha Guidy." -- page 31

• "...large glaucous eyes with very large whites, like those of a carousel horse pursued by the Erinyes, those female avengers of antiquity." -- page 32

• "It was not that Raymond was hard to like. He was impossible to like." -- page 33

• "His pose, had it been executed in oils, might have been called "The Young Duke among the Fishmongers." -- page 47

• Anent Marco: "He had the superior digestive system which affords almost every man blessed with it the repose to become thoughtful." -- page 35

• Anent a Russian general: "[he was]... as stocky as an opera hat." -- page 43

• Marco's squad members, all of whom, except Marco and Raymond, are named after actors in the Bilko show: "Between them, left to right, were Hiken, Grosfield, Little, Silvers, Mavole, Melvin, Freeman, Lembeck." -- page 46

• "Their brains had not merely been washed, they had been dry-cleaned." -- page 64

• Anent Medal of Honor winners, "when he reaches the age of sixty-five he becomes eligible to receive a pension of $120 per year from which, if he smokes one package of cigarettes a day, he would have $11.85 left over for rent, food, hospitalization, entertainment, education, recreation, philanthropies, and clothing." (Cigarettes would be 29 cents a pack....) -- page 67

• "Raymond's mother was dressed up to about eight hundred dollars' worth of the best taste on the market. The only jarring note ws the enormous black purse she carried. It looked like a purse. It was a portable cigar humidor. The would have given the press people money, Raymond knew, but she had sensed somehow that it would be misunderstood." -- page 69

• "the pupils of his eyes were open at about f.09 with the sedation she had loaded into him." -- page 70

• "found himself as impotent as a male butterfly atop a female pterodactyl when he tried to have commerce with Raymond's mother." -- page 81

• "The governor never shaved from Friday night to Monday morning, no matter what function might be scheduled, as though he were a part-time Sikh." -- page 102

• "Only twice was there a time when he did not maintain the full and automatic three-hundred-and-sixty-degree horizon of raw sensibilities over which swept the three searing beams of suspicion, fear, and resentment flashing from the loneliness of the tall lighthouse of his soul." -- page 112

• "...straightening her back and slipping several lengths of steel into her voice like whalebone into a corset." -- page 158.

• "Every nerve end in his body had grown a small ticklish mustache, and they sidled along under his skin like eager touts, screaming on tiptoe." -- page 181

• Raymond's mother in a fancy French restaurant: "I ask you to imagine a restaurant... which does not list Clos de Lambrays or a Cuvée Docteur Peste!" -- page 211

• "...a young, dumpy blonde with a face like a bat's and the thirst of a burning oil field." -- page 274

• "...an utterly new conception, perhaps as television would have been to the inventor of the wheel." -- page 287

Charge of plagarism from "I, Claudius"

hmmm, seems pretty well-founded. See: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/10/04/DD13399.DTL Quel deception! Hayford Peirce 21:09, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

references to the Condon cult

• as late as the 1969 NYT review of Mile High at http://select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F0081EFB3A5910738DDDA80B94D0405B898AF1D3

• even later, in 1974, in NYT review of Winter Kills at http://select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FB0B17FD3A5F107A93C4AB178ED85F408785F9

• The Detroit Free Press for Any God Will Do at http://www.paperbackswap.com/book/details/198370-Any+God+Will+Do, a secondary source