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."

Charge of plagarism from "I, Cladius"

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