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Wolf Larsen looked curiously at him, as though about to probe and vivisect him, then changed his mind, as from the foregone conclusion that there was nothing there to probe.

All the time he had been in a state of ill-concealed irritation at the noise of the vivisected puma.

Lustrous period detail evokes an era of suffocating Cold War paranoia with aplomb, reflected in snappy dialogue like when one kind-hearted scientist argues that it would be unconscionable to vivisect any creature capable of understanding and emotions.

The term "vivisect them" appears in the near context with reference to the residents of Malacandra (Mars), possibly hinting at the fate of the unfortunate dog (p.

Synopsis: Collaboratively compiled and co-edited by Nicolas Michaud (Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Florida State College, Jacksonville) and Janelle Potzsch (who holds a Doctorate in Philosophy from Ruhr-Universitat Bochum and currently works as a research assistant at the Institut fur Philosophie, Germany), "Dracula and Philosophy" is comprised of erudite contributions by 24 nocturnal philosophers who stake out and vivisect Dracula from many angles.

For Bangladeshi historians, the conflict was a war of national liberation; for Pakistani historians, it was a war of secession in which India intentionally instigated the Bengalis to vivisect Pakistan; for Indian historians, it was the third India-Pakistan war in which India emerged victorious.

He suggests that Weston "can keep them as pets or vivisect them or sleep with them or all three" (34), showing his own belief in the equal amorality of all three acts.

When Hayslip is detained at the My Thi torture camp as a suspected Vietcong operative, her interrogator draws a knife and threatens to vivisect her nipples if she refuses to divulge information about Vietcong activity: "Go back to yourself.

Speeches were made against the Muslim 'cry of a national homeland'; the League's Resolution was termed as 'anti- national, historically groundless, a grave menace to the peace and tranquility of the Punjab and India, and as an attempt to vivisect the United India.