... followed generally well into the eighteenth century, if not longer. These people were thus treated as if they were plague victims or lepers and might communicate their contagion. They were often referred to as ladres, or lepers, or as short ears (oreilles courtes), a term sometimes applied to lepers...

... for the good of his health and then in an agony of remorse, had one of his followers hale him into church with a rope around his neck to do penance for his indulgence. But the acme and climax of Francis s self-struggle was undoubtedly his experience with the lepers. These unhappy creatures were at that time...

... to the bodies of plague victims, he had been in­ fected himself. A small dog licked the sores on his hands. The Francis­ cans told us that St. Francis kissed a leper s sores; once he drank the water he had just used to bathe a leper. One woman, a regular of the First Saturday outings, came on a stretcher...

... unobstrusive comments and corrects exaggerations. At the same time, he does not inhibit his characters; he lets them speak with all their passionate scurrilities. He tells us that Leroy Percy called Bilbo a low-flung scullion who disgraces the form of man, a vile degenerate, a moral leper, this bribe...

... the world in Pyle s way. Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world meaning no harm. The innocent cannot, of course, be blamed, but since in them the very sense of duty is dangerous, they must be controlled or even destroyed. Pyle s innocence and idealism are contrasted...

... principle as deity appear. The white goddess is nymph, mother, and old crone. She mates with man, gives birth, and presides over his funeral. She is ambiguous, and her whiteness is her milk white skin, a specter, a leper, and a corpse. The white goddess is the muse. She is also man s experience. Any fiction...

... were variously compared to the de­ formed hands and feet of the then-common leper, or to the lumps and goiters caused by other dreaded diseases such as scrofula. This led some people to conclude that potatoes caused these diseases. Moreover, the properties of alike-looking and alike-sounding veg­...

... the Renaissance monuments; when I first saw the interior (now being restored), the bodies of dead birds lay in the dust that covers the tombstones in the pavement. An odd passage which gives upon one wall of the chapel was intended, some maintain, for the access of medieval lepers. St. Andrews University has...

... the mysterious disappearance of his brother. But just at this juncture Jean dies, and his funeral clears up the mystery about his younger brother when it is discovered that he is a leper. Cable makes very skilful use of suggestion here, relying more upon hints than definite statements for the effect in working...

... to a leper colony and the smallpox case to the pest house. If they had a certain disease which could be locally treated, they would quarantine the home. The sanitary engineers would investi­ gate the conditions under which the people were living, the housing conditions, the sanitation, the air contained...

..., but He extended it far beyond the literal meaning. Sometimes He reversed the law, as for instance, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. He touched the leper and did not feel unclean. He broke the laws of the Sabbath out of love for man. He left no command about sacrifices or temple worship, He...

... they labored in Thailand, American Protestant missionaries of the Bradley Era educated the Thai leaders; established the first schools, hospitals, dispensaries, and leper colonies; introduced inoculation, vaccina­ tion, and modern obstetrics; influenced the Thai leaders to abolish slavery, establish prison...

... in the factory illustrate the ways the nexus of capital- labor relations develops well beyond the simple production of wage laborers. Sanyal evokes the image of the “ship of fools,” a metaphor Michel Fou­ cault used to elaborate the spatial exclusion of lepers from the city limits in sixteenth-century...

... of Narrative, will treat this approach to narrative in greater detail. 31 On the play adapted from Balzac s novel, see Pierre Barberis, Lepere Goriot (Paris, 1972). It is interesting to note that Balzac s contemporaries accused him of pla­ giarizing for his novel another melodrama, Etienne s Les deux gendres...

... and terrible. . . . Fare­ well to half of me I die to myself. To leave behind the hated but familiar masculine ways is like forsaking the world and going into the monastery or a leper house. To quit the world of trousers for the world 446 Stathis Gourgouris of the brassiere is a kind of death, expected...