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glove I pull back his head and expose the blue gnarled cacophony of his neck. | glove I pull back his head and expose the blue gnarled cacophony of his neck. | ||
“I am Abraham and you the ram caught in the thicket,” I announce from behind. “I have been an outcast in many lands, I bear the covenant, and you {{pg|509|510}} | “I am Abraham and you the ram caught in the thicket,” I announce from behind. “I have been an outcast in many lands, I bear the covenant, and you {{pg|509|510}} full of power and goatish lust, you carry the false demon out of whose curved horn I will blow my own triumph and salvation.” | ||
“How unlike an Abraham thou art,” he responds, gasping from his entanglement in the ropes. “Where is thy son then and where thy handmaiden Hagar, whom thou so ungenerously got with a child of false promise and then discarded into the wilderness? Thou art an assumer of historical identities, a chameleon of literary pretension.” | |||
I reach into the empty air for the sword of slaughter when Archie Moore separates us, rights Mailer, and warns me about hair pulling and exposing the | |||
jugular of my opponent. | |||