cormorant books inc is a canadian book publishing company .

the company 's current publisher is marc côté .

cormorant books specializes in fiction by new and emerging canadian writers , reissues of out-of-print classics of canadian literature , and english translations of works by quebec writers .

in 2010 , the company also launched dancing cat books , a separate imprint for works of young adult literature .

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earlier this month in toronto , marc côté and his staff packed up the offices of cormorant books .
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complicating matters further is the fact that crean’s partner , novelist susan swan , is publishing her next novel with cormorant books in 2013 . and swan’s daughter , literary agent samantha haywood , sells foreign rights for thomas allen .
a letter sent to literary agents earlier this year details the new normal : manuscripts to be considered by thomas allen are to be sent to senior editor janice zawerbny ; manuscripts intended for cormorant books are to be sent to bryan ibeas , the newly promoted acquisitions editor .
earlier this month in toronto , marc côté and his staff packed up the offices of cormorant books . a few days before the move , pictures and plaques still decorated the walls of their spadina avenue office , which they shared with playwrights canada press , and the shelves were still filled with books that had to be boxed up and trucked north , to markham , where the offices of thomas allen & son are located .
côté says he will continue to edit cormorant titles , along with ibeas ; dancing cat books , their young adult imprint , will be overseen by publisher barry jowett ; robyn sarah will continue to run the poetry line , with four titles a year . thomas allen publishers will remain “a boutique kind of list , ” according to allen . “it’s not a list i intend to grow into dozens of books a year . ”
in june of 2000 , côté received a call from jan geddes , co - founder of cormorant books . geddes , along with her husband , gary , had started the press in 1986 . cormorant achieved early success — they published lives of the saints by nino ricci , which won the governor general’s literary award for fiction in 1990 — but had been experiencing tough times . she offered côté the job of publisher .
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on july 1 , thomas allen took control of cormorant’s sales and distribution and acquired what jim allen calls “a very small” stake in the company .
“the devil’s cormorant combines natural history , social and economic impacts through a series of stories , each told with compassion and humour . ”— british birds
“it really means something to be there with your books , ” he says . “it’s quite humbling to actually walk into the warehouse and see the miles of aisles of books , and realize that what we do , vaunted as it is , is just one part of the process . and it’s good to walk into the warehouse and see everyone working their asses off , making sure the books go out , that the right books go to the right booksellers . you think it’s a simple thing until you realize — thousands of titles , thousands of copies . it’s a humbling experience . i like that .
“we’re a publishing company , and one of the things that really troubles me about the way the industry has worked is we tend to lionize individual , ” côté says . “books don’t happen because there’s one great author , or one great editor . books happen because so many people along that chain kick in . ”
where are they now ? gary claims not to have swallowed all the manuscripts sent to him , however slick or fishy , but to have published some great canadian books . he is now living in his favourite spot , the west coast , and doing what he loves best , writing . his recent books include the acclaimed kingdom of ten thousand things and sailing home . jan geddes now lives in victoria and is working on a novel and is studying latin . the hallmark of cormorant’s twenty years of publishing is the discovery and promotion of new writing talent ; in this time , the company has had ten books nominated for the various incarnations of the books in canada first novel award . the company’s fiction and translations have been nominated for many national , regional , and civic book awards and prizes .
i love how king approaches the cormorant from an interdisciplinary angle , covering vast time and space while providing fascinating stories about the cormorant . he educates us through compelling vignettes of a variety of powerful and interesting relationships of different people to these unique birds . his storytelling abilities made me not want to put this book down !
, a novel crean had rescued when edugyan’s original publisher , key porter books , went bankrupt . this was crean’s second giller prize “win” — austin clarke won in 2002 for
the move represented not only a geographic change for côté , the long - time publisher of cormorant books , but a professional change , as well . on jan . 19 , it was announced that patrick crean , who’d founded and headed thomas allen’s publishing division since it was launched in 2000 , was leaving the company ; côté , 51 , was named his successor .
twenty years ago , jan and gary geddes started cormorant books on their farm outside of dunvegan in eastern ontario . each of them had a reason for naming the company for this particular bird . according to gary , the cormorant is such a good fisher that humans use it , with a wooden ring to prevent it from swallowing its catch . gary enjoyed being of use to canadian writers briefly , then passing the responsibility and the glory to jan , who had heard a rumour that the cormorant was a voiceless bird . she endeavoured to give that bird a voice by introducing new writers to readers across canada . both gary and jan succeeded in acquiring the good catches , the new writers , and providing a foundation for a company that has introduced many significant voices .
richard king ' s the devil ' s cormorant is a brilliant book . it is scientifically well - informed , serious , funny , and full of good stories . . . a post - modern ornithology .
less than a year later , “it was very clear that general publishing was in trouble , ” côté says of jack stoddart’s empire . soon after , the company went into receivership . “in the end , we lost $ 75 , 000 , but it wasn’t devastating , ” he says . by the end of 2002 , côté and his partner , john pugsley , were sole owners of cormorant books . “it’s been me ever since , ” he says .
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richard king ' s the devil ' s cormorant is a brilliant book . it is scientifically well - informed , serious , funny , and full of good stories . . . a post - modern ornithology .
— living bird
i picked this book up off the coffee table while staying at a friend ' s house . when i read the title i was thinking
what ' s a cormorant ?
after that i couldn ' t put it down .
in spring 2011 , cormorant inaugurated a new poetry line . we publish between two and four poetry titles a year ( currently two ) . we seek excellent new collections by poets both established and new ; anthologies and reissues by solicitation only .
david homel is a writer , journalist , filmmaker , and translator . he is the author of five previous novels , including the speaking cure , which won the j . i . segal award of the jewish public library and the hugh maclennan prize for best fiction from the quebec writers’ federation . his most recent novel , midway , was published by cormorant books . he has translated several french works , receiving the governor general’s literary award for translation in 1995 and 2001 . homel was born and raised in chicago and currently resides in montreal .
now in toronto , keeping the cormorant tradition established in 1986 alive has , at times , been difficult . at other times , it’s been relatively easy – finding a narrative voice of character and distinction , the new author with something to say that’s not been said before , rescuing the out - of - print authors whose reputations have tarnished with age and neglect . publishing books , such as those in the pages of this catalogue , is an adventure ; it’s an intellectual pursuit without parallel . when a new book arrives from the printer , when an author receives her first glowing review , the hardest of times are forgot . we all live for these moments . the company’s dedication to publishing a diversity of voices from across the country continues , along with the belief that these voices are worth hearing . they are worth reading , not just for a small and select audience , but for the largest possible one , which is why we rely on booksellers and librarians , and why we rely on book reviewers and the media , who play as important a role in this endeavour as do we , the staff and authors of cormorant books .
côté approached jim allen , president and ceo of thomas allen & son , in january 2009 . he was attracted to the company’s integrated sales and distribution , something cormorant lacked . “it was one - stop shopping , ” côté says . “it was going to solve a headache for me . ”
the program celebrates books published in the 2015 calendar year and in three categories : poetry , fiction and non - fiction . brennan said the celebration is long overdue . “until now , new brunswick – a province with a rich literary heritage – was the only province in canada without its own ( anglophone ) book awards program . ” *
“he can come off as very determined , and ‘this is the way , ’ but when push comes to shove he wants the author to be happy with the book , and he knows that the book belongs to the author , ” says tess fragoulis , whose novel the goodtime girl will be published by cormorant this spring .
as inspiring as these books were to me as i gunkholed my way up the inside passage , where hazards are innumerable and support can be minimal , i wanted to do something different . for me , a trip up the coast would be not so much a discovery as a recovery narrative , a way of getting in touch with people and places and events from my own past .
the devil ' s cormorant is a great read for those interested in birds or anyone who enjoys crisp natural history writing . i will be buying another copy of this to give to my father , who loves bird watching ; the beautiful illustrations make it a great gift . i couldn ' t put it down ! the author ' s love of cormorants comes through in his excellent writing .
behold the cormorant : silent , still , cruciform , and brooding ; flashing , soaring , quick as a snake . evolution has crafted the only creature on earth that can migrate the length of a continent , dive and hunt deep underwater , perch comfortably on a branch or a wire , walk on land , climb up cliff faces , feed on thousands of different species , and live beside both fresh and salt water in a vast global range of temperatures and altitudes , often in close proximity to man . long a symbol of gluttony , greed , bad luck , and evil , the cormorant has led a troubled existence in human history , myth , and literature . the birds have been prized as a source of mineral wealth in peru , hunted to extinction in the arctic , trained by the japanese to catch fish , demonized by milton in paradise lost , and reviled , despised , and exterminated by sport and commercial fishermen from israel to indianapolis , toronto to tierra del fuego . in the devil’s cormorant , richard king takes us back in time and around the world to show us the history , nature , ecology , and economy of the world’s most misunderstood waterfowl .
despite the subtitle , this is a work as much about human history and values , as it is about nature . king sees past the symbol and presents the real cormorant , living amidst real people . and one is left with this conclusion : surely we need animals as symbols . but let’s not allow it to obscure the real , complicated , beautiful creatures among us .
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poetry - anita lahey , a poet , journalist , reviewer and essayist who lives in victoria . she’s the author of the mystery shopping cart : essays on poetry and culture ( palimpsest , 2013 ) and two poetry collections : spinning side kick and out to dry in cape breton ( véhicule , 2011 & 2006 ) . she serves as assistant series editor for tightrope books’ annual anthology best canadian poetry in english ,
despite the subtitle , this is a work as much about human history and values , as it is about nature . king sees past the symbol and presents the real cormorant , living amidst real people . and one is left with this conclusion : surely we need animals as symbols . but let’s not allow it to obscure the real , complicated , beautiful creatures among us .
— nature conservancy
behold the cormorant : silent , still , cruciform , and brooding ; flashing , soaring , quick as a snake . evolution has crafted the only creature on earth that can migrate the length of a continent , dive and hunt deep underwater , perch comfortably on a branch or a wire , walk on land , climb up cliff faces , feed on thousands of different species , and live beside both fresh and salt water in a vast global range of temperatures and altitudes , often in close proximity to man . long a symbol of gluttony , greed , bad luck , and evil , the cormorant has led a troubled existence in human history , myth , and literature . the birds have been prized as a source of mineral wealth in peru , hunted to extinction in the arctic , trained by the japanese to catch fish , demonized by milton in
physically , a very nice book and a fascinating natural history read . mr . king really covers every aspect of the cormorant . like so many other concerns related to the environment , he does a really good job providing a thorough perspective of both sides of some of the issues . my particular interest is in the conservation / ecological impact in the states , but the book covers the natural history , social and economic impacts of the birds all over the world .
as in his previous books on violence and reconciliation in sub - saharan africa , geddes is fascinated by healing . repeatedly , he asks the people he speaks with why they are not angry , why they do not hate . they respond that in healing they have let go of their anger . they are turning inward to their own cultures , their languages , their foods , and their medicines . this is what indigenous writers like taiaike alfred and lee ann betasamosake simpson call resurgence . it is healing for indigenous people by indigenous people .
i didn ' t get to read the devil ' s cormorant although i wanted to . the book i received from amazon was strange indeed . . it was printed backward - that is it began with page 378 , followed by 377 , then , 376 , etc . and , many of the pages were printed upside - down . a very weird version of this book . it is impossible to image how the printer allowed it out of the shop ! ! and , of course , i was the poor fool who bought it !
just finished reading the book , although i ' ve had it for a while . i enjoyed the variety of travelogue , ecology , social study , natural / human history . similar to many of the other books along these lines that i have read and really enjoyed ( secret life of lobsters , cod , beautiful swimmers , founding fish , etc . ) . and the closing chapter was particular interesting after the objective , in - depth , global research king had conducted . extensive resources and citations , which always makes me feel better about a book , too .
côté’s adventure in the publishing industry began in 1985 , when he left montreal for toronto . he intended to become a playwright but his first job was with the canadian book information centre , the marketing arm of the association for canadian publishers . it was here côté realized he was more impressed with what was happening in canadian literature than in canadian theatre . this was followed by positions at books in canada , the world’s biggest bookstore , the ontario arts council , and finally as head of the literary press group of canada , a sales and distribution co - op for small presses .
“when i started , they had a budget of less than $ 200 , 000 and sales of less than a quarter - million , and a staff of two full - time people — me and the sales manager — and they had three reps who worked a total of 16 weeks a year , ” he says , sitting down at a coffee shop not far from cormorant’s former offices . “when i left , the budget was $ 1 - million a year , the sales were $ 2 . 5 - million a year , they had a staff of six people in the office , and they had six full - time sales reps . ”
geddes : frye once said that every poet has one or two structures of feeling that are absolutely central to him and his work , and that these structures are often consciously or unconsciously announced in the titlepoems of the author ' s books . i ' d say that i am preoccupied with injured figures , figures caught in the machinery of society or politics or religion . there ' s something common between the narrator of horse , chartier , the potter in xian and sandra lee scheuer , who was killed at kent state university . perhaps a good shrink could tell you why i write about these individuals . i might even venture a guess or two myself , but not today .
after his marriage collapsed and he’d chucked his tenured teaching job in montreal , vancouver - born poet and editor gary geddes bought a 31 - foot sloop called the groasis and learned to sail it—slowly—to produce sailing home : a journey through time , place and memory ( harper $ 32 ) .
my literary predecessors were legion—such as james cook , juan francisco de la bodega y quadra and george vancouver—so i planned to maintain a respectful distance from their journals .
kathrene pinkerton , whose three’s a crew ( 1940 ) was published the year i was born , recounts her adventures upcoast with her husband robert and daughter bobs . i was particularly fond of this book because it casts kathrene and family as duffers with even less knowledge of the sea than i possessed , although robert had some mechanical competence and kathrene was capable of fine writing and acute observation .
m . wylie blanchet , a widow with several children , cruised the inside passage over several summers , condensing her experiences into a minor classic called the curve of time ( 1968 ) .
the third member of the trio was beth hill , whose upcoast summers , published in 1985 , pieces together the 1933 - 1941 journals of francis barrow , who travelled the coast with his wife amy and two black spaniels and managed to record encounters with 227 coastal residents .
if these upbeat , affectionate accounts had a downside , it was in their implicit reminders that sailing is more enjoyably done with company and that the working population of the remote coast that i was setting out to find—farmers , loggers , fishermen—had almost disappeared .
i felt that i knew and , in some ways , owned the coast already .
my grandfather had drowned off point atkinson , his body never recovered . my mother swam alongside the boat for miles in howe sound as a young woman before dying of cancer at age thirty - four . my father had been part of the rescue team at the collapse of the second narrows bridge in vancouver . he and i had fished together commercially in rivers inlet . i had spent several summers on the waterfront , loading trucks and boxcars at the b . c . sugar refinery in vancouver , working at my uncle’s boat rentals in whytecliffe and , later , driving water - taxi between westview and texada island .
the lure of the coast is such that people will try to travel it in anything that floats , including bathtubs , canoes , leaky rowboats , ancient hulks with dangerously high superstructures , kayaks , houseboats made of plastic , rotting clinker - built trollers , concrete sailboats , perhaps even bamboo rafts if , as seems likely , asian and polynesian navigators actually made it to the west coast .
my own expectations were modest : i wanted a sailboat that was roomy , seaworthy and cheap , but with devastatingly beautiful lines and an exotic track record . one of my friends recommended i phone an acquaintance in victoria who did legal work for the artistic community and might know where to begin . this proved an interesting lead .
if i were prepared to give up the idea of sailing , the voice said , and willing to do some basic carpentry work , i might be able to use one of the two gillnetters currently serving as props in the scott hicks movie of david guterson’s stunning novel , snow falling on cedars . the price was right and my earliest experiences in boats on the coast had taken place on my father’s gillnetter in rivers inlet , so this was a tempting offer . however , i was determined to sail as much as i could and i wanted a boat with a real rather than a fictional history . i also knew better than to try composing my modest memoir in the shadow of such excellence . eventually , boat and owner came together as if the hand of fate had intervened , though you’ll have to wait for that part of the story .
sailing home is not for professional seamen or the archetypal beautiful person on a yacht ; rather , it’s for the rest of mankind , those of us who , with warts and failures and impossible dreams , have tried to go back , with or without a boat , tried to find that intimate space , or state of mind , called home .
when i set sail at the tail end of the second millennium , i was joining the ranks not only of intrepid mariners , but also of complete novices such as charles darwin , who emptied the contents of his stomach over the gunwales during three - and - a - half years at sea on the beagle , and a religious crusader named jeff bauchmann rescued off tofino on the west coast of vancouver island on july 3 , 1999 with no charts or maritime experience , only the two hundred bibles he was planning to deliver to russia . when the canadian coast guard picked him up , he was heading in the wrong direction . although my missionary zeal was of a different kind , and my library of offerings to the russians would have had considerably more variety , i certainly knew the feeling of being way off course .
first i had to learn to read a chart ( “no , gary , asterisks are not decorative . they’re symbolic ; they represent rocks . ” ) , figure out how to handle a headstrong boat , and learn to navigate in a sea teeming with personal and tribal ghosts .
i was , from the outset , a sort of floating anachronism , crawling across the surface of the sea on my belly , because so much coastal travel is now done by air . my speed , five nautical miles per hour , seemed good to me ; i needed to slow down , decompress , take stock , to look long and hard at the places of my desire and , perhaps , see them again for the first time .
it was a scary and glorious misadventure . in due course , tide - lines would became song - lines ; life - jackets merge with book - jackets ; boat and book share something we refer to , quaintly , as a launch .
vancouver , bc – the west coast book prize society is proud to recognize gary geddes as the recipient of the fifth annual lieutenant governor’s award for literary excellence . british columbia’s lieutenant governor , the honourable steven point , will present the award at the lieutenant governor’s bc book prizes gala to be held at the fairmont waterfront hotel in vancouver on april 26 , 2008 . the event will be hosted by broadcaster fanny kiefer . this prize was established in 2003 by former lieutenant governor , the honourable iona campagnolo , to recognize british columbia writers who have contributed to the development of literary excellence in the province . the recipient receives a cash award of $ 5 , 000 and a commemorative certificate .
gary geddes was born in vancouver in 1940 . he was raised for four years in saskatchewan but grew up primarily in vancouver ' s commercial drive area . he became a lay preacher for the baptist church and a singer in one of vancouver ' s first rock combos . he received his phd in english from the university of toronto and has edited important college anthologies such as twentieth century poetry and poetics ( 1969 ) and skookum wawa ( 1975 ) , a breakthrough volume for bc literature . described as canada ' s best political poet by critic george woodcock , some of his major poetry titles are letter of the master of horse ( 1973 ) , war measures and other poems ( 1976 ) , the acid test ( 1981 ) , the terracotta army ( 1984 ) and changes of state ( 1986 ) . geddes has led a literary delegation to china , founded a subscription - based publishing company and he teaches at concordia university . gary geddes lives in dunvegan , ontario .
t : war measures & other poems is an odd book to come from a westcoaster . where do the politics and the interest in french canada come from ?
geddes : you can ' t grow up in bc without becoming political . either you get on the bandwagon and try to milk the land , or become a socialist - there seems to be no easy middle ground out here . i guess my fundamentalist background left me with an overactive conscience too , like all those other baptists who ended up in the ccf . as for chartier , the mad bomber , he was a westerner too . he knew about marginality . he was french - canadian and an albertan . i found in his death a symbol for something tragic and deadly in our culture . he had no means of redressing the injustices he felt . he thought politicians were crooks . many of them are . what good was his vote ? he decided to take a stick of dynamite into the house of commons . was he going to throw it from the gallery ? we don ' t know . the newspapers laughed at him , as a not - so - beautiful loser , as another canadian failure , as a fool . one paper denied that his act was canadian . we don ' t act separately here , it said ; we are violent in groups only . therefore , chartier ' s act is meaningless , essentially american .
geddes : no , he seems cut out for something else . whether he changed his mind when he got there , seeing all the school children in the gallery , watching the minister of consumer affairs picking his nose and reading the globe or remembering another alternative , that of the buddhist monks in vietnam , who gave up their own lives in protest to the american presence - whatever it was , chartier ended up taking his own life . who ' s to say he didn ' t intend that all along , and who ' s to say it was not the most powerful gesture possible ? some of our contemporary terrorists should remember that .
t : that was a long answer . it ' s also a long poem . how do you keep a poem that long from collapsing in the middle , or turning to sludge ?
geddes : maybe you don ' t . i tried something different . i used the form of diary jottings , to keep the sections short and lyrical , highly charged and with the kind of intensity of image of a stopped frame in a film . kroetsch called those sections narrative remnants , a phrase that makes sense to me . the reader is kept alert by both the intensity of the image , hopefully , and the energy and attention required to stitch together those non - linear , but still interconnected , narrative remnants .
for the long poem , you need many different strategies , but it ' s the most exciting form in my view , and the one that separates the sheep from the goats . i leave it up to you to decide which is which .
geddes : when the family returned from saskatchewan , we lived briefly with my father in rivers inlet , where he was gillnetting . that landscape continues to haunt me in quite a different way , for its excess , its exotic qualities , the vibrant colours , the scale of trees and mountain and ocean . commercial drive was bleak in comparison , a poor decompression tank for immigrants and white trash waiting for a break to get them into the suburbs . i don ' t know how much of that i noticed as a kid . i was too busy making a living and trying to survive on the street .
t : was it all that negative ? geddes : that experience was not pleasant , but it wasn ' t totally negative either . it ' s the stuff legends and stories are made of . i sometimes wear my poor years as a sort of proletarian badge fried bologna and baking powder biscuits , hustling coal sacks and hubcaps , living in a drab flat over a store at the corner of fourth and commercial - but it was also rather magical , since that ' s where i began to learn about sex , where i started to earn money from working for a hunchback jeweler , where i bought my first second - hand bike that gave me the freedom of the city .
geddes : no , but it ' s convenient legend to use sometimes in polite , pretentious company . we were poor . the family received food baskets at christmas and clothes from friends at the church . my father had drinking problems and health problems , so there was not always sufficient money available . my mother worked in toot ' s cafe at the corner of broadway and commercial for fifty cents an hour and tips , at a time when she should have been at home looking after my younger brother , who was sick .
still , the drive had the best view in the city , if you looked north . i ' ll always miss the mountains i could see almost any day of the week . and the trams and streetcars .
t : the place seems to be central in a number of ways in your life , if only in name .
geddes : yes , it ' s my st . urbain street . my father drove cab like duddy ' s father . i learned to hustle on the drive , working at various jobs , coming quickly to the opinion that only work would get me out of there . ironically , many of my writer friends are now moving to the drive ; it ' s the only place i could possibly afford to live if i returned to vancouver . i know what you ' re getting at though . the many different hats i wear as a teacher , editor , writer , publisher and general propagandist for culture in canada may have some roots in the drive . not in the commercial sense , but certainly in terms of drive . a . y . jackson once said that the only way an artist can survive in canada is to become an institution . that ' s my impression too . especially for poets . who wants to pay for a poem , or a book of poems ? so i teach , i do a few odd jobs that are useful and that bring in money to support my family and my almost secret vice of poetry .
t : but you ' ve had some success , and some support too .
geddes : yes , i ' d say i ' ve been very lucky . the kid on the drive would never have believed all this . still , i was a romantic and had great hopes for myself . i wanted to be a preacher and save the world , from what i ' m not sure . now i think i ' d like to save it from people like me .
geddes : yes , fakirs and fakers . jimmy bakker and mahatma gandhi . i think of writing as a way of getting in touch with my deepest feelings . i don ' t lay these feelings out on the page like dripping laundry . i wring them out and cut them up into very different forms , to make something new with words that will take others deeply into themselves , not into my life and its problems .
geddes : obvious i should throw that one away , it ' s too transparent . the mask helps me to find a voice . i seem to be able to get into the heads of my characters by using the first person more easily than i could talking about them in the third person .
geddes : more the legacy of being human , being insecure . our culture in canada , perhaps even more so in bc , has always been anti - intellectual , afraid of the mind and afraid of the imagination , resources cherished in many other countries . i had to work hard to overcome the sense that i should be seen and not heard , that my accent was odd and my thought processes were unattractive . we all live with that as canadians .
beyond that , however , i have my own need to remain private . a writer gives himself away with every word he writes , i realize that . but i find it difficult , and not entirely valuable , to write about my own daily life . that life sifts into everything , of course , and colours the most seemingly objective material , even something as exotic and non - native as letter to the master of horse and the terracotta army .
geddes : yes , but he was also writing out of his own deepest needs and desires as he said that . it doesn ' t really matter what material you begin with . what matters is what you do with that material . or , what it does with you ?
geddes : i ' m not sure , but it sounds right . material that is personal becomes objectified in the process of creation ; material that is objective becomes strangely personalized , receives its stamp of style , of character . so , too , the author changes in the process .
t : no man steps twice . . . geddes : that ' s it , yes . the processes are quite mysterious . the russian jewish poet mandelstam talked about writing his own death or his wife described the process as it worked in his poems . the poet creates and falls into his own myth .
geddes : recently there was a film on television about the life and death of claude jutra , a quebec filmmaker of great importance , and a gifted actor and director . he committed suicide not long after he discovered he had alzheimer ' s disease . he drowned himself . in one of his early films there is a scene in which the central character walks off the end of a pier and drowns , the concluding moment of the film . there are signs in the other works as well .
pat lowther ' s poems are full of signs that we might say prefigured her own death by violence . i don ' t want to fall into this way of thinking about writing , or about art . the author ' s death is the least important detail . the work is what matters , regardless of the path taken or the price paid .
geddes : personality is a masquerade . what lies underneath is bedrock , unchanging , eternal , if anything is eternal . that is what art aims to discover . al purdy ' s domestic poems are romances . david mcfadden ' s delightful first - person comedies are fabulous fictions created by a psyche that is quite startling , quite severe .
geddes : perhaps a degree of violence that desperately needs capping . is it an accident that this interview is taking place on main street in an east indian restaurant that used to be called , not in jest , the razor blade cafe ?
geddes : it ' s the name by which god would really know you . not as alan twigg , but a real name , such as he - who - would - shoot - from - the - hip - before - falling - off his - horse . that sort of thing . in analysis once i described the experience of having my father come from saskatchewan , after my mother ' s death , to take me to live with him and his second wife . i was sitting on the piano bench . i ' d had only twelve piano lessons . i ' d learned to playa few pieces . when my father arrived at the house , he was sitting behind me on the couch and i was playing the piano . as i recounted this story for the psychologist , i burst into tears . deep sobs . ii suddenly became clear to me that i had been playing for my life . i had to get that piece right or my father would not love me , would
not take me with him . of course , that was not accurate at all , but that was how i had perceived it at the time and , perhaps , how i have perceived it unconsciously all these years . there i was on my island piano stool . and that is my deep - name : he - who - sings - for - his - own - life .
t : and of course poetry can be said to be a form of singing too . just like making music on the piano .
geddes : i sang all the time as a kid . certain songs on the radio used to make me weep . i never knew why , just assumed i was a sentimental slob . recently , i learned that my mother had sung all those songs to me as a child , even while i was in the womb . the feelings of loss clung to the notes and lyrics . i used to sing in my potato patch in saskatchewan , and in the outhouse . poems must have been a continuation of that urge to sing .
geddes : both , obviously . at a certain point , however , the singing serves other functions than self validation . you start to sing of the tribe , to keep the record , to bear witness . most poems come to me as a gift . the coincidence of elements that allows me to write a poem has little to do with me . i have to keep alert and keep my language self in good shape , like a volunteer fireman . i have to be there at the right time , ready to work . i believe language is a collective and communal treasure . my job is to try to write another poem , not take credit for what is done .
three events in british columbia drew world attention during the 1950s . englishman roger bannister and australian john landy eclipsed the four - minute - mile barrier at empire stadium during the miracle mile ( on august 7 , 1954 ) ; north of campbell river , engineers generated the largest non - nuclear peacetime explosion in human history at ripple rock ( on april 5 , 1958 ) ; and eighteen steel workers and one rescue diver were killed when the second narrows bridge collapsed during its construction ( on june 17 , 1958 ) .
in 1958 , having just graduated from king edward high school , gary geddes was working on the waterfront at bc sugar refinery , loading boxcars with 100 - pound sacks of sugar , so the news of the bridge collapse did not take long to reach him .
“what i did not know at the time , ” he says , “was that my father had been called out as a former navy diver to stand by in the search for bodies in the wreckage . i’ve carried for a long time the image of him dangling from his umbilical cord of oxygen in that cauldron of swirling water and twisted metal . ”
geddes has imagined the voices of those most directly affected by the accident for an unusual collection of poetry , prose and archival photos called falsework ( goose lane $ 19 . 95 ) . the title is an engineering term that refers to the temporary supports that are required for a cantilevered bridge under construction .
“in this case , ” he says , “a mistake was made and the horizontal i - beams were inadequate to support the weight . it was a simple mathematical error that should have been picked up by both the contractor , dominion bridge , and the consulting engineers , swan wooster and associates . ”
the second narrows bridge was renamed the ironworkers memorial bridge in 1994 to commemorate the tragedy . to this day many british columbians are haunted by the event . this summer , when geddes read from falsework at the denman island writers festival , a woman in the audience recalled working as a telephone operator in 1958—and every conversation she overhead on that fateful day mentioned the bridge failure .
sandy morris grew worried when his brother ivan did not return from surgery . when sandy went to ivan’s cot on a ward in the nanaimo indian hospital , he found two orderlies stripping it . he asked them what they were doing and where was his brother . they responded by twisting his arm behind his back to punish the impertinence of speaking to them at all . when they were through abusing him , they walked away , one orderly saying over his shoulder that ivan would be of no use to sandy now ; he was in the morgue . tearfully sandy ran to the basement where he found ivan on a gurney . terrified and heartbroken , he pulled back the sheet to reveal ivan’s face . leaning forward to kiss his brother one last time , he felt the subtle feathering of breath against his cheek . ivan was alive . clamouring noisily up the stairs as only a little boy can , sandy confronted the orderly asking him to bring his brother back up the ward – he was not dead . the orderly responded : “if you want your brother so badly , bring him up yourself . ”
this book is not so much about medicine , though , as it is about relationships , about conversations and about listening . it begins with a conversation between geddes and joanie morris , a tsartlip survivor of kuper island residential school and the niece of sandy and ivan morris . her mother spent seventeen years in the nanaimo indian hospital . as she learns to trust geddes , she opens the door to others who might wish to share their stories and they in turn introduce him to more people until he has travelled half way across this country . some bring photos but mostly they talk and they challenge geddes , and us , to listen . when he wonders whether he , as a white man , should be doing this work , joannie responds , “hey , gary , no one has listened to us for the last two hundred years , so why don’t you get off your butt and be the first ? ”
listening , as it turns out , can be a problem for canadians . as joanie puts it , “the problem i have with white people is that they don’t listen . ” publishers told geddes that “no one in canada cares about indians . ” for decades , canadians dismissed the testimony of residential school survivors or simply refused to hear it . some still wish to see the “good” in the schools . the truth and reconciliation commission and its public events across the country offered all canadians a chance to hear survivors’ testimony and many thousands did just that . through the massive trc report , we can hope that the weight of such testimony has removed disbelief .
on the indian hospitals , geddes finds , we have a long way to go . our ears remained blocked , partly because the stories are so horrific , but we have learned through the trc that such stories are nonetheless true . geddes , and the people he met , worry that canadians will not listen because we are still inclined to weigh documentary evidence as more trustworthy than oral history . for those who want the documents to speak , getting access to them is not easy . geddes , it seems , was refused access to the archival files he requested . some of the most compelling examples of medical abuse remain uncorroborated – children , now adults , recall repeated vaccines , or other shots , but without school medical or hospital records we cannot know what the vaccines were , or why or how they were administered . sometimes the records seem simply to no longer exist , such as those of the mysterious deaths at the brandon sanitarium in the 1950s . access denied , files destroyed , geddes writes that the archives have been cleansed of the evidence of our atrocities . we cannot hear the stories we cannot find .


disembowelment or evisceration is the removal of some or all of the organs of the gastrointestinal tract ( the bowels ) , usually through a horizontal incision made across the abdominal area .

disembowelment may result from an accident but has also been used as a method of torture and execution .

in such practices , disembowelment may be accompanied by other forms of torture , and/or the removal of other vital organs .

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a case of self - disembowelment is presented with an overview of self - disembowelment as a cultural entity .
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as this illustration points out , there were different styles of disembowelment : single - line disembowelment ( ichimonji - bara ) , crosswise disembowelment ( jumonji - bara ) , crosswise disembowelment in modified t - shape ( henkei jumonji - bara ) , and vertical disembowelment ( nambu - bara ) . the above japanese illustration depicts these four types as well as pointing out how the blade should cut into the flesh .
d . usk , the final incarnation of disembowelment , will play roadburn festival 2012 .
encoffination o ' hell shine in thy . . . t - shirt incantation disembowelment death
…ritual suicide by disembowelment ( seppuku ) was institutionalized as a respected alternative to dishonour or defeat . …
suicide by self disembowelment
lyrics by eviscerated : suicide , suicide , suicide take . . .
disembowelment ( evisceration ) is the removing of some or all of the vital organs , usually from the abdomen .
disembowelment ( evisceration ) is the removing of some or all of the vital organ s , usually from the abdomen .
such it the case of disembowelment , the process of cutting into the abdomen and removing the internal organs , especially the intestines .
another patient with almost total disembowelment was a stabbing victum . his intestine fell onto the sidewalk . he was in the icu for 7 months .
the band , making their first ever performance in europe , will play an exlcusive , complete rendition of disembowelment’s 1993 doom classic ‘transcendence into the peripheral’ .
japanese samurais were known to commit ritual suicide by stabbing themselves in the belly . why ? why not hang themselves ? cut their own throats ? does japanese culture view disembowelment differently from other deaths ?
inspired by this thread and this post . how long would it take for someone to expire following the commencement of the disembowelment of the
hanging , drawing , and quartering
method of execution ?
the man killed his girlfriend in june 2005 in the hague by reaching into her anus and vagina and tearing the tissue from her body out . the case became known as the
disembowelment murder .
was largely defined by the rise of the warrior class , which held martial skills and the ideals of duty , loyalty , and bravery in the highest regard . the practice of ritual suicide by disembowelment (
it is remarkable how much the human body can be damaged without causing immediate death . such it the case of disembowelment , the process of cutting into the abdomen and removing the internal organs , especially the intestines .
suicide by self disembowelment
is a song by eviscerated . it is track # 1 from the album gorging on rotting entrails that was released in 2007 . the duration of this song is 02 : 58 .
- ritual suicide or disembowelment in japan ; commonly know in the west as hara - kiri ; demonstrated courage and a means to restore family honor . - ritualistic suicide that would restore honor and demonstrate courage . - showed japanese dedication to honor .
the ancient egyptians believed that toxins formed as a result of decomposition within the intestines . this perception still exists , as evidenced by the plethora of advertisements for colon cleansing . in combination with the tough image of samurai committing seppuku , this leads to phenomena such as the australian death metal band disembowelment and songs such as ' self disembowelment ' by devourment , with lyrics such as ' i must release these vile insects from inside of me ' - although the lyrics as a whole are quite difficult to follow [ 2 ] .
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australian death / doom band formed in 1989 . they recorded two demos , an ep and one full - length album before breaking up in 1993 . two members continued to play disembowelment songs live under the name d . usk , and later formed another band in a similar style called inverloch .
rare examples of self - disembowelment include the report of a new jersey man who allegedly cut out his entrails in front of police and then threw bits of his intestines at them [ 3 ] . also , a case is mentioned in the 1968 edition of the atlas of legal medicine [ 4 ] .
the japanese custom of seppuku ( also called hara - kiri ) , or self - disembowelment , was long practiced as a ceremonial rite among samurai . japan’s use of kamikaze suicide bombers during world war ii was a precursor to the suicide bombing that emerged in the late 20th century as a form of terrorism , particularly…
however , death by disembowelment is an excruciatingly drawn out process . thus , warriors who chose to die in this less than optimal this manner win awe and respect from their peers . the romanticisation of such deaths as dramatic display of bravery and determination elevated this method of suicide above other , less painful ways , to die .
seppuku ( 切腹 ) is a form of japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment . seppuku was originally reserved only for samurai . part of the samurai bushido honour code , seppuku was either used voluntarily by samurai to die with honour rather than fall into the hands of their enemies , or as a form of capital punishment for samurai who had committed serious offenses , or performed because they had brought shame to themselves . the ceremonial disembowelment , which is usually part of a more elaborate ritual and performed in front of spectators , consists of plunging a short blade , traditionally a tantō , into the abdomen and moving the blade from left to right in a slicing motion .
disembowelment , or the removal of a person’s bowels often through a horizontal incision in the abdominal area — as it appears to have been done in this video , has been used in a number of countries as a method of torture and execution . it is almost always fatal without medical attention , but death is prefaced by several hours of severe pain .
this is somewhat of an idealisation since disembowelment was , originally , just one of several methods for committing suicide . many great warriors , such as kusunoki masashige , killed themselves in other ways and were no less venerated for it . at these older times , harakiri was mostly a way for warriors to go down fighting . no special honour or deeper meaning was attached .
in this edgar award - nominated mystery , john maddox roberts takes listeners back to a rome filled with violence and evil . vicious gangs ruled the streets of crassus and pompey , routinely preying on plebeian and patrician alike . so the garroting of a lowly ex - slave and the disembowelment of a foreign merchant in the dangerous subura district seemed of little consequence to the roman hierarchy .
my first case observing the slow torture of a victim condemned to death was the disembowelment of a young woman in spain . the pretty dark haired girl , name teresa , was captured during a secret meeting of traitors , and in spite of her pleas of innocence , had been convicted of treason herself . the king was particularly concerned that the group of seditionists spent a long time suffering before their death .
while martial suicide is a practice found in a lot of cultures , the act of seppuku , or ritual self - disembowelment , is peculiar to japan . the earliest known acts of seppuku were the deaths of samurai minamoto tametomo and poet minamoto yorimasa in the latter part of the 12th century . seppuku is known in the west as hara - kiri . however , the term seppuku is considered a more elegant usage .
as we had removed the most easily obtained intestines , any more disembowelment would require a larger opening . the gutting knife was produced once more , and inserted at the far edge of the existing wound . pressing in and then down with much force , the flesh was opened up in a descending gouge . a large flap of the victim ' s belly opened up with a somewhat wet flopping noise . her attempts at screaming were almost inaudible , as she was no longer able to use her abdominal muscles .
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blood loss in this case is still going to be very severe - nearly all the abdominal organs are pretty amply supplied with arterial blood . it ' s a bit hard to work out precisely , but the combined cross - sectional area of the arteries supplying the liver , kidneys and intestines appears to be about equivalent to that of a femoral artery - so if some other aspect of disembowelment doesn ' t do the victim in first , and nothing is done to stop the flow , i think that death through loss of blood must occur in a couple of minutes at most .
encarta says that for many centuries there were an estimated 1 , 500 instances of voluntary and obligatory hara - kiri per year . but in 1868 or 1873 ( sources disagree ) the emperor abolished obligatory hara - kiri , and voluntary procedures became less frequent as well . still , during world war ii many japanese soldiers committed hara - kiri rather than tolerate capture . finally , hara - kiri ( meaning
belly cutting
) is not a word that most japanese use . the common term for the practice in japan is
seppuku
which roughly translates to
self - disembowelment .
wallace was tried in westminster hall , sentenced , and drawn through the streets to the tower of london . he was then drawn further to smithfield where he was hanged but cut down still alive . he suffered a complete emasculation and disembowelment , his genitalia and entrails burnt before him . his heart was then removed from his chest , his body decapitated and quartered . wallace achieved a great number of victories against the british army , including the battle of stirling bridge in which he was greatly outnumbered . after his execution , wallace’s parts were displayed in the towns of newcastle , berwick , stirling , and aberdeen .
the outlets of a swimming / spa pool are connected to a powerful circulation pumping system . if the outlets are blocked , whatever is causing the blockage will be exposed to the suction force of the circulation pumping system . the circulation pumps will be sucking on whatever is causing the blockage , causing a vacuum . at this point , it will be very difficult to remove the blockage without turning off the circulation pump ( s ) . if the blockage is a person , then tragic consequences can occur , including drowning , disembowelment and transanal evisceration , which is where internal organs are forcefully drawn out through the anus .
not true . the bowel can and does slither out of the abdomen when opened . it can happen after abdominal surgery when , for various reasons , the wound dehisces . i ' ve seen it once . because the patient was on a bed that burbles air through sand - like pellets , the bed surface moved constantly . the bowel fountained out before any of us could turn the bed off . it was quite horrifying . the patient was taken back to surgery immediately , but much of the large intestine had already died . another patient with almost total disembowelment was a stabbing victum . his intestine fell onto the sidewalk . he was in the icu for 7 months .
hanging was the standard form of capital punishment for the common man , but beheading by a swordsman could happen for nobles . those who committed high treason could be sentenced to being hanged , drawn , and quartered . this involved hanging the criminal almost to the point of death , cutting them down , emasculation , disembowelment , beheading , and then finally cutting the body into four parts . this method of execution was abolished in 1870 . part way through the 18th century , the english gov ' t reformed to policy to hanging the body until death , then drawing and quartering . women convicted of treason could be burnt at the stake , but by the 18th century , this was rare .
on his way to the top of the social totem pole , caesar never failed to take advantage of an opportunity to make enemies . his knack for angering senators is epitomized in a quote of his , circa march 14 ; ' you can ' t please everyone , but you can piss off every last one of them , and when that happens , you get stabbed thirtysomething times and die a horrible , gruesome death . ' unfortunately , this gave certain brutuses and cassiuses ideas , and the next day he was stabbed thirtysomething times and died a horrible , gruesome death . the event ( his gory , lengthy stabbing and subsequent puking of blood and explosive disembowelment ) has been made into three major motion pictures .
in cases where men were brought to the table unconscious , a splash of water was used to wake them up . often the disembowelment and castration of the victim would follow , the genitalia and entrails burned before the condemned ' s eyes . in many cases , the shock of such mutilation killed the victim . finally the victim would be beheaded and the body divided into four parts , or quartered . quartering was sometimes accomplished by tying the body’s limbs to four horses , each horse being spurred away in a different direction . typically , the resulting parts of the body were gibbeted , or put on public display , in different parts of the city , town , or country , to deter potential traitors . the head was commonly sent to the tower of london . gibbeting was abolished in 1843 .
to be drawn and quartered was the penalty ordained in england for the crime of treason . it is considered by many to be the epitome of cruel punishment , and was reserved for the crime of treason as this was deemed more heinous than murder and other capital offenses . the grisly punishment included the drawing of the convicted to the gallows , often by horse , the hanging of the body until near death , disembowelment and castration , followed by the beheading of the body , and finally the quartering of the corpse , or the division of the bodily remnants into four pieces . the punishment was carried out in public , with the ridicule of the crowd adding to the criminal ' s suffering . this punishment was only applied to male criminals ; women found guilty of treason in england were burnt at the stake . it was first employed in the thirteenth century and last carried out in 1782 , although not abolished until 1867 .
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— the family of a wake county girl who was nearly killed by a wading pool drain will not have to await years of appeals and uncertainly following a record $ 25 million jury award .
the family of valerie lakey and sta - rite industries of wisconsin reached a settlement tuesday morning before a jury was to consider whether additional , punitive damages should be awarded in the case . the agreement calls for monday ' s $ 25 million compensatory damages award to stay intact , but the family agreed not to seek additional punitive damages , which could have meant a payout of millions more by sta - rite . meanwhile , the company agreed not to appeal monday ' s verdict and award .
the agreement eliminates the possibility that the record award , the largest damage award in north carolina history , could be reduced on appeals , which can drag on for years .
valerie ' s reaction ?
i ' m just happy my parents are out of court ,
she said .
with tuesday ' s settlement , valerie ' s family has won damages totaling $ 30 . 9 million . sta - rite has agreed to send a $ 25 million check to the lakeys ' attorneys by the of the month .
valerie , 9 , was 5 years old when she went to the medfield area recreation club in cary with her father on june 24 , 1993 . the drain cover in the wading pool had been removed by someone , and valerie sat on the opening . the suction was so strong that four adults could not pull valerie from the drain .
about 80 percent of valerie ' s intestines were pulled from her body . as a result of the injuries , valerie must be fed intravenously for about 12 hours each day , and she may face liver and kidney transplants .
last year , the medfield club settled with the lakeys for $ 500 , 000 . wake county , which certified the pool , settled for $ 2 . 5 million , and the maker of the wading pool pump settled for $ 2 . 9 million .
the lakeys ' attorneys , john edwards and david kirby , argued that sta - rite had failed to take action to prevent injuries even though it knew of at least a dozen cases where people had become trapped or injured on pool drains . a california child was killed in a 1974 accident similar to valerie ' s ; in 1981 , a boy in henderson was killed the same way .
but attorneys for sta - rite had argued that the recreation center was negligent for not properly fastening the drain cover .
sta - rite , a subsidiary of wisconsin gas co . , is one of the nation ' s largest makers of pool equipment .
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they not only covered it up , they ' re still lying about it today .
a government committee’s testimony translated by heat street , a conservative site owned by news corp . , on friday spotlights beheadings , gouged - out eyes , and sexual abuse at the bataclan theater last year . the islamic state terror attacks killed 130 across the city and 89 at the concert venue alone .
a translation provided by the website show france’s commission of inquiry asking an investigator about the remains of victims on the second floor of the theater . the questioner said that injuries attributed to shrapnel seem dubious given that one man had his testicles removed and placed in his mouth .
“some of the bodies found at the bataclan were extremely mutilated by the explosions and weapons , to the point that it was sometimes difficult to reconstruct the dismembered bodies , ” an prosecutor said . “in other words , injuries described … may also have been caused by automatic weapons , by explosions or projections of nails and bolts that have resulted . ”
“would those have put a man’s [ testicles ] in in his own mouth ? ” the committee member fired back .
according to this testimony , wahhabist killers apparently gouged out eyes , castrated victims , and shoved their testicles in their mouths . they may also have disemboweled some poor souls . women were stabbed in the genitals – and the torture was , victims told police , filmed for daesh or islamic state propaganda . for that reason , medics did not release the bodies of torture victims to the families , investigators said .
but prosecutors claimed these reports of torture were “a rumor” on the grounds that sharp knives were not found at the scene . they also claimed that maybe shrapnel had caused the injuries .
as yemeni president ali abdullah saleh plans to sign a deal today that could mean the end of his 33 - year rule , a graphic new video has emerged that indicates human rights abuses continue in the country’s 11 - month - old uprising .
a man carries the disemboweled boy to an emergency room . ( image via youtube )
amnesty international reports that the human rights situation in yemen has deteriorated rapidly this year , and that torture against protesters is a widespread practice . methods of torture in yemen , according to the human rights organization , include : “beatings all over the body with sticks , rifle butts , punching , kicking , prolonged suspension by the wrists or ankles , burning with cigarettes , being stripped naked , denial of food and prompt access to medical help , as well as threats of sexual abuse . ”
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the garrote very common once , is no longer sanctioned by law in any country though training in its use is still carried out in the french foreign legion . the garrote is a device that strangles a person to death . it can also be used to break a person’s neck . the device was used in spain until it was outlawed in 1978 with the abolition of the death penalty . it normally consisted of a seat in which the prisoner was restrained while the executioner tightened a metal band around his neck until he died . some versions of the garrote incorporated a metal bolt which pressed in to the spinal chord , breaking the neck . the victim may pass into a state of severe and painful convulsions and then pass into death . this spiked version is known as the catalan garrote . the last execution by garrote was josé luis cerveto in october 1977 . andorra was the last country in the world to outlaw its use , doing so in 1990 . however garroting is still common in india according indian author and forensic expert parikh .
flaying is the removal of skin from the body . like an animal is flayed in preparation for human consumption , or for its hide or fur ; this is more commonly called skinning , flaying is similar method applied onto humans . flaying of humans was used as both a method of torture and execution , depending on how much of the skin is removed . flaying is an ancient practice , used by assyrians and ming dynasty .
where the victim is dipped in a big bowl . this method was used in russia and europe 3000 years ago and they used oil , acid or water . this type is considered slow and extremely painful . this penalty was carried out using a large cauldron filled with water , oil , tar , tallow or even molten lead . sometimes the victim was immersed , the liquid then being heated , or he was plunged into the already boiling contents , usually head first . the executioner could then help speed their demise by means of a large hook with which he sank the person deeper . an alternative method was to use a large shallow receptacle rather than a cauldron ; oil , tallow or pitch then being poured in . the victim was then partially immersed in the liquid and fried to death .
, but like flexible bows , bent round , and bit their own ; till those entrails seemed swallowed over and over again by the same mouth , to be oppositely voided by the gaping wound .
of a poem ' s meaning can diminish the personal , even transcendent , experience of reading a poem
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, self immolation , the ingestion of glass or nails or bits of rock ) .
of a nation on canadian soil , but unfortunately , it is not seen in its full version in grammond ' s book .
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the reasoning for the continuing cover up is unfathomable . the horror that is now known is unspeakable . the pain the victims experienced is unthinkable .
we now know the french government sought to cover up the fact that many victims of last year’s terrorist attack in paris at the bataclan music hall were savagely tortured , including genital mutilation .
a french government committee’s testimony on friday revealed publicly for the first time the beheadings , gouged - out eyes , and sexual abuse at the bataclan theater last year . the islamic state terror attacks killed 130 across the city and 89 at that single location alone .
“some of the bodies found at the bataclan were extremely mutilated by the explosions and weapons , to the point that it was sometimes difficult to reconstruct the dismembered bodies , ” a prosecutor said . “in other words , injuries described may also have been caused by automatic weapons , by explosions or projections of nails and bolts that have resulted . ”
“would those have put a man’s testicles in in his own mouth ? ” a committee member fired back .
according to a police chief’s testimony , isis killers gouged out eyes , castrated victims and shoved their testicles in their mouths . they also disemboweled people .
women were stabbed in the genitals and the torture was filmed for islamic state propaganda . the carnage was so terrible to see that police did not release the remains of torture victims to the families .
no one in france has yet to offer any explanation for keeping this information secret until now .
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from what i make out from the picture ' s text , this 26 year old was cruelly tortured and murdered . his legs were broken , ears and lips cut off , eyes gouged , chest stabbed and heart extracted .
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so i take it he wasn ' t exactly hanging out with friends and family when he exited stage right . .
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while i have always practiced my skills in the effort to persuade reticent or evil persons to confess or provide information , my experiences took me to a number of places where i was able to observe executions . my personal preference is not to involve myself in the slow and painful executions of the condemned , but rather to persuade ; though it is true that my methods sometimes result in the eventual death of the victim , it is not the primary purpose .
it is remarkable how much the human body can be damaged without causing immediate death . death may result over time due to the deterioration and of the damaged area and failure to heal ; but if certain areas of the body are left intact , the victim remains alive to deal with the agony inflicted on her for many days . if damage to the brain , the heart and lungs are avoided , and care is given to prevent the loss of too much blood , the victim is perfectly capable of surviving for long periods of time .
several guards were tasked with causing her slow death , and being a good acquaintance with the chief prison guard , i was invited to observe . i agreed willingly , hoping to learn new techniques that might be useful in my own work , and was admitted to the prison on the morning after the victim ' s conviction and sentence . the torture was not to take place in the holding cell , where the girl was secured in stocks which had prevented any significant movement for the last several days . the guards took me to the cell first , where several women were held , chained or held in most uncomfortable restraints . the youngest of the lot , a young woman with long raven black hair and a pretty face , was released from her restraint and dragged from the room .
as we reached the torture chamber , the girl was thrown to the floor . she was wearing a typical bar maid ' s dress , apron and bodice ; all were stained and dirty from her work , and later from the stress of imprisonment . two of the guards quickly relieved the girl of these clothes , tearing them from her as she struggled feebly to resist .
when she was reduced to her tiny panty and stood before us at last , she revealed the most nubile , well formed and pleasant female form i had observed in many a year . as is clear from my writings , torture is best inflicted when the victim is naked , as the feeling of helplessness and vulnerability is enhanced ; thus i had seen many women naked in my time as an interrogator . this woman was medium height , thin , but with beautiful curved breasts , slight ripples from her ribs seen under the flesh of her sides , a thin waist and pleasingly firm buttocks . the flat expanse of her abdomen was well toned with a hint of definition , almost as if she was an athlete , and her legs were strong and shapely .
it seemed almost a tragedy to tear and destroy this impressive girl ; the guards lifted the girl from the table and dragged her to a large cross of wood that stood against the wall of the chamber . there the woman had her wrists securely tied to the upper beams , and then her ankles forced apart and tied to the lower beams . the ropes were pulled very tight , and she cried out as they were tightened , begging for mercy for the first time . no mercy was given , of course , and the ropes were tightened until there was no possibility that she could struggle free . they cut into her wrists sharply , causing some blood to seep out , and her hands and feet quickly turned purple as the blood circulation was cut off .
the beautiful shape of the young woman ' s body was accentuated by her position : hanging from her arms , stretched to show her naked upper body to full advantage , legs spread and tied apart . her breathing was quick , the pain of her bonds taking hold as her weight pulled her down . she writhed , attempting to gain freedom , or at the least to find a less painful position .
one guard produced several items to be used during the torture of the girl . a knife , a hook of sorts , and a bucket . the knife was like those that fishermen use for gutting a fish , short and curved back on itself , with the sharp of the blade facing to the inside of the curve .
the knife was placed against the flat belly of the girl , who looked down and saw the sharp point pressing against her flesh . a small trickle of blood marked deep red against the white smoothness of her flesh . as she saw what was about to happen , she screamed in panic , swearing that she was innocent , that she would do anything to avoid her fate , begging for mercy . the blood from the puncture wound in her upper belly trickled down between her legs .
with a sudden thrust , the knife was plunged deeper into her flesh , and then pulled hard to the side . the screams changed from panic to agony as her flesh was ripped apart , a gash about six or seven inches long opening up halfway between her belly button and her chest .
the knife was removed , and i observed that because of the curve in the blade , it had penetrated sufficiently to slice open the belly , but not enter or tear the internal organs . perfectly suited to the job , the knife had opened her up , ready for exploration , without doing any serious damage to her insides .
the poor girl ' s screams had actually subsided some , as i suspect the shock of what was happening overwhelmed her . she looked down , saw the gash in her abdomen , and then tilted her head back and stared at the ceiling as she sobbed .
the bucket was placed below the girl , and just in front . there it waited for a while , as the executioner guard drank some wine and chatted with the rest of us about the crime the girl had committed . he estimated that she would live at least a day , and perhaps longer , before succumbing to infection and shock .
after being fortified with several goblets of wine , the guard took the strange hook in hand and approached the hanging girl . the hook had two sharp prongs at the end , pointed and hooked around on themselves in a most evil manner . slowly , he worked it into the gaping wound in her abdomen , sliding it in and then around inside of her . at last he seemed satisfied and began slowly pulling it out . as the hook appeared once again , we could see it had penetrated and was pulling out a thin white tube of flesh . this tube was only about an inch in diameter , perhaps a little more , and while it was covered in red blood , the tissue looked more like a pale purple and gray .
the small intestine was pulled from the opening , slowly sliding out like an eel or wet worm . when a foot of it had been pulled out and lay hanging over the condemned belly , the guard removed the hook from where it pierced the organ and re - inserted it deep within the girls abdomen . pushing in further , the iron rod which ended in the hook disappeared inside her .
the girl was sweating profusely , water gathering and trickling down her beautiful body , breasts wobbling as she struggled , chest rising and falling as she screamed . she looked down and saw how she was slowly being torn apart . the horror of it overwhelmed her and she slumped unconscious for a moment , though only for a moment . the rod was slowly being removed and as the hook appeared once again , it showed that more of the intestines had been grabbed and were being pulled out . three feet of bowel now hung out of the wound and down the belly of the girl .
grabbing the bowel , the guard pulled slowly but surely , and the snake - like slimy mess slid easily out of the opening . the girl hung her head , watching her intestines being removed slowly . enough had been removed that they now began to gather in the bucket below , wrapping around in a circular pattern , covered with blood and slime .
the woman was clearly in agony , but the greater part of the pain was in knowing , and actually seeing , how her body was being slowly violated and taken apart . she sobbed , cried , and screamed when strength allowed her , no longer begging for mercy . her hands had turned a deep purple , fingers swollen and unmoving . blood now covered the front of her flesh from her belly downward , making a stark contrast to the beauty of her smooth skin above , the shapeliness of her breasts , neck , and the beauty of her face and hair .
as more of the bowels slid out and filled the bucket , i took the opportunity to come close to the victim and observer the operation more closely . the opening in her upper belly was low enough so as not to damage her chest or diaphragm , which accounted for her continued ability to scream . her abdomen , which had been flat before , appeared to be becoming slightly concave . somewhere around 10 or 12 feet of her bowels had been removed at this time .
while there was blood , most of it was from the initial gash to gain entrance to her insides . this was no longer bleeding , and the operation continued , removing her bowels without causing any immediate life threatening damage . an unfortunate side effect of this torture – she lost complete control of her bowels , and defecated through her panties and on the floor below her , in violent , large bursts . the stench was rather oppressive for some time after .
when almost 25 feet of the thin , slightly lumpy gray tubing had been pulled from her , the guard stopped , and lifted a large handful up to the woman ' s face . intestines were smeared over the beautiful cheeks , lips and eyes… and then looped over her neck so that she wore her own bowels like a necklace .
no longer screaming with agony , the woman was still in great pain but lacked the strength to express it . her body was shaking uncontrollably . and then , just as the guard moved to remove the last bit of intestine , she weakly vomited and then fainted .
a bucket of water was produced and splashed on her face and upper body . this cleaned some of the slime from her and restored some of her previous beauty . it also roused her from her faint , and she looked down at the remains of her belly and screamed with renewed vigor .
her bowels were still connected to her insides , and ran back up into the gash in her belly . pulling harder , the guard slid more of her entrails out , and quickly exposed a much larger , wider organ that was deep red in color . there was very little of this exposed before it stubbornly refused to yield more of its length .
the interior of the torture chamber had become saturated with terrible odors , and was almost breathable . at my suggestion , all of us decided to go wash and refresh ourselves at the local tavern , to return later and finish the task .
after a good meal and several bottles of wine , we returned to the prison and descended to the chamber . the offensive odors within struck us hard , as if it were a physical wall . the woman hung from the cross , breathing with a rasping labored effort . flies had gathered around her entire body , infesting her extracted entrails , her open belly , and her face .
with experienced hands , the knife sliced out her remaining large intestine , and her bowels fell free of her body , no longer hanging out . blood pour freshly , mixing with the blackened dried blood from several hours before .
pressing around inside the opened abdomen , the guard then applied the knife once again , cutting swiftly . he produced a lumpy glob of flesh and explained it was the internal part of her woman ' s organs . this horrible visage actually made my stomach churn , seeing the woman ' s internal organs removed and displayed in this manner as she looked on in a haze of agony , hanging from the cross .
after some time , it became clear the woman was slipping in and out of consciousness , but might live for some time . i suggested that we get the process over with , and help her to her final reward ( or punishment , as the case was for this traitor ) . the oppressive stench of that room was very unpleasant , and i had no more wish to view the woman ' s suffering .
in response , small , straight blade was produced . i took it to the woman , who looked at me with glazed , red eyes as i reached into her abdominal cavity . placing the tip under her diaphragm , i lanced the blade into her heart . fresh blood flowed to her mouth , and her eyes rolled back . soon there was no more movement in her body or face .
remaining there for a moment to assure she was dead , i jerked the blade away from her belly , and left the chamber . as i left , the other guards were cutting the ropes from her wrists and ankles , and there was a heavy thump as her once beautiful lifeless form fell to the ground on top of the remains of her disemboweled organs .
it was a lesson for me , watching this woman ' s death by torture . and while her fate was deserved as a treasonous wretch , i decided that my activities were to be restricted to the art of interrogation and persuasion from that time forward .
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as the human spirit was believed to reside in the stomach , slitting the stomach open was considered to be the most straightforward , and bravest , way to die . therefore , this act was a privilege reserved for the samurai . commoners were allowed to hang or drown themselves , and samurai women could slit their own throats , but only a samurai was allowed to commit seppuku . by committing seppuku , a samurai would be able to maintain or prevent the loss of honor for himself and his extended family . therefore , a samurai who committed seppuku was often revered after his death . defeated or dishonored samurai who chose surrender rather than suicide often found themselves reviled by society .
by the edo period , the act of seppuku had become a fully developed ritual . great emphasis was placed on a strict adherence to the ceremony . in a typical seppuku , a large white cushion would be placed and witnesses would arrange themselves discreetly to one side . the samurai , wearing a white kimono , would kneel on the pillow in a formal style . behind and to the left of the samurai knelt his kaishakunin ( his “second” or assistant ) .
the duty of the kaishakunin was to prevent the samurai from experiencing prolonged suffering by cutting the samurai’s head off once he had slit his stomach . contrary to popular belief , the ritual of seppuku for a samurai did not technically involve suicide , but inflicting fatal injury , leaving the kaishakunin to strike the death blow . the kaishakunin needed to strike the samurai’s neck hard enough to sever the spine but also delicate enough to still leave the head attached . as severing the head completely dishonored both the samurai committing seppuku and the kaishakun , the role of “second” was given only to men who possessed superior control of their swords .
a servant would place a wooden table before the samurai , which would contain a sake ( rice wine ) cup , a sheaf of washi ( paper handmade from mulberry bark ) and writing utensils , as well as the kozuka ( disemboweling blade ) although the samurai would be allowed to use his own sword if he preferred . the sake cup was then filled from the left by an attendant . the samurai then emptied the cup in two drinks of exactly two sips each , as one sip would show greed , and three or more sips would show hesitation . this would make a total of four sips ( the character shi , which means “four” , also means “death” ) .
a tanto blade for the seppuku ritual . ( cc by - sa 2 . 0 fr )
before committing seppuku , a samurai would write a jisei ( death poem ) which was considered important as a person facing imminent death was believed to have special insight into the nature of death and the value of life . the poem should be graceful and natural , usually in the theme of transient emotions . mentioning the samurai’s impending death in the poem would be considered poor form and uncouth . this was also important for the samurai as the poem would serve as a written glimpse into his nobility of character and how he wished to be remembered after his death . asano naganori , for example , whose seppuku precipitated the famous incident of the “forty - seven ronin” , is said to have written a particularly poor death poem , possibly because he implied the impending end to his life , thereby showing his immaturity and lack of character .
according to tradition , when he felt ready , the samurai would loosen the folds of his kimono , exposing his stomach . he would then lift the knife with one hand and unsheathe it with the other , setting the sheathe to one side . after mentally preparing himself , he would drive the knife into the left side of his stomach , then draw it across to the right . he would then turn the blade in his wound and bring it upward . most samurai did not have to endure this last agony , as the kaishakunin would cut their heads off at the first sign of pain . the cut in seppuku carried out to its finish was known as the jumonji ( crosswise cut ) , and to perform it in its entirety was considered a particularly impressive seppuku .
a samurai must keep his composure even on the brink of death , showing strength and full control of his mind and body in his last moments . any previous reputation of a samurai would be meaningless if he were to die in an unseemly manner . however , although a calm and composed state was ideal for the samurai committing this act , the eighteenth century book hagakure and other edo works relate stories of samurai losing their composure just before committing seppuku , and in some cases had to be forcibly decapitated .


william james zimpel ( 25 february 1859 – 3 december 1923 ) was an australian furniture manufacturer , furniture merchant and local government councillor .

they were born in pesth , ( budapest ) , austrian empire ( hungary ) and died in cottesloe , perth , western australia , australia .

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concurrently with his employment zimpel had begun working on his own , establishing a furniture factory and later shops at 797 - 807 hay street . the business built up a reputation for being able to supply all levels of the community and secured many government contracts . it also profited by zimpel ' s astute move to establish a country order department . he ran a wholesale trade in mattresses in the coastal and goldfields districts , and had ' constantly in stock from 30 to 40 different varieties of perambulator ' . zimpels grew into the largest wholesale and retail furniture business in western australia ; by the turn of the century it employed about forty factory hands ; the company ' s staff subsequently grew to over one hundred .
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