davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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Whodunit and half Ito use a
label of my own coining)
HOwcatchem; and The Ryno
Murder as one of those
razzle-dazzle, now-you-see-it-
now-you-don't affairs which
many Of us case-hardened
toilers like to throw off
once in a while"
THE GRUDGE. By Bert
and Dolores Kitchens. (Dou-
bleday & Co.; $500 The
Kitchens series about rail-
road detectives has special
interest but a special liza
bility, tOo-interest because
the field is offbeat in detec-
tive fiction, liability because
the range Of legitimate cases
is limited. The authors have
stretched the limit in the
story Of Tommy Collins. who
hates railroads, his mother
and a sister, and wants to
dynamite all three out Of ex-
istence. The railroad detec-
tives are conspicuously super
fluous in what is actually a
competent but predictable
story Of a young pSychopath.
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most controversial critics Of
the 192OS. He published many
volumes of essays on books
and authors. From these, Mr..
Aaron, who teaches at Smith
College, has selected a rep
resentative collection. The
subjects range from Jonathan
Edwards to Henry Adams.
WEEKEND GUESTS. Text
by William K. Zinsser, draw
ings by j a m e S Stevenson.
(Harper & Row; $685. The
ancient and subtle duel be-
tween host and visitor is the
subject of this book. The
chapters, arranged like a die
tionary, range from Arriving
Friday Pm. is the message
on the postcard that arrives
Friday AM" to "Zhivago,
the doctor in attendance In
every guest bedroom.
BY CECLE. By Tereska
Torres. (Simon & Schuster;
$S.95.) A gift book for the Co
lette fan, this novel is based
on the early life of the French
novelist Colette. While many
of the characters and Incl
dents arise from her child
hood, only the framework o:
Colette's life is used to create
an entirely original character.
GREAT SEA BATTLES. BY
Oliver Warner. macmillan
Co.; $19.95 until December 81,
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drama" of Goethe long has
been a subject for scholars. In
this new translation Mrs.
Raphael, a member of the
Society for Psychical Re-
search, suggests that the
author was attempting to
reconcile pagan and Christian
ideas of redemption.
A FORTUNE IN THE
JUNK PILE. By Dorothy
jenkins. Grown; $5.95.) A
guide to valuable antiques
that may be hidden in the
attic or cellar. With many
photograph S to help tell
whether that hideouS what-nOt
is really a Victorian treasure,
with all sorts of specialized
knowledge. You'd never know,
for instance, how many forms
rocking chairs can assume.
THE DOLPHIN GUIDE TO
ROME. By william Daven-
port. doubleday, Paperback;
S1.45. A pocket guide tn
Rome by the author of many
guide books. There are maps
and good photographs.
SHELBURNE ESSAYS ON
AMERICAN LITERATURE.
By Paul Elmer More. (Har-
court, Brace & World;
$4.95.) Paul Elmer More,
exponent of a literary move
ment called THE New HUI
manism," was one Of the
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among the most brilliant in
the entire book. The first is a
discussion of a possible rap
prochement today between
religion and art. Mr.. Nemerov
doubts, l believe, that much of
either religion or poetry will
be found in ''the church of
your choice" OF that the
however you may-conceive-
Him" God will turn out to
have an acute ear for verse.
Another finely argued and
at times almost hilarious
essay concerns the proposal of
science to improve humanity
by the preservation, control,
and scientific conjunction of
deep-frozen sperms and eggs.
It poses a number of queS-
tons, such as if we have in
our society a hundred perfect
ly recreated Beethovens, they
will certainly listen to the
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BOOKS IN REVIEW
la PomPadour:
AWarm Defense
BY DAY THORPE
Star Book Critic

P0MPADOUR. biography by Jacques Levron. Translated
from the French by Claire Engel (St Martins Press;
$695)
bOwgeoise beauty mistress Of Louis XIV, Of the
great powers in French culture politics and society," and the
bearer Of the family of Fish, La Marqse de Pompa-
dor was hated ridiculed and vied in her tme and
was not treated too kindly by her 18th century bOgaphers
She has today made poShumous conquest Jacques Levon
historian and chief Of the Versailles archives Not cheming
intriguing coutesan but rather grand lady, intellectual
talented actress singer and harpschords patrOness Of
the arts effective International statesman NJ Levrons
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HE WHO FLEES THE LION.
By J. Klein Haparash.
(Atheneum; $7.95.)

By j. Klein HaparaSh.
(Atheneum; $7.95.)
"He Who Flees the Lion"
was first published in Europe
two years ago, and has re-
portedly caused a sensation.
And no wonder, for the au-
thor has managed a rare COM
bination. He has written a
novel of social comment that,
far from being either dull Cor
what is worse) angry,
sweeps the reader along in
the masterful style Of John
Buchan. Beside Klein-Hapa-
rash, an Ian Flemming seems
trivial. James Bond faces
enemies all of whom we know
to be imaginary. With equal
dash and aplomb, Ludovic
Aida faces an enemy that all
Of us remember as all too
real: The sinister combination
of Nazis and Communists who
in 1939-40 carved up Central
Europe to suit themselves.
The basic outline of the
story is simple. Ludovic Aida
is a Roumanian aristocrat,
seemingly devoted to nothing
but a good life which includes
plenty Of liquor, pretty wom-
en-, gambling and thorough
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10000 DREAMS INTERPRETED
Do Your Dreams Have
Any True Meaning?

ZOLARS ENCYCLOPEDIA AND DICTIONARY OF DREAMS.
By Zolar Doubleday; $3.50
1t isn't often you get, in volume encyclopedia and
a dictionary. the sentences running concurrently.
And isn't often you get in volume, 30 600 Dreams
Interpreted by WordFamous Asrologer"-at the brisk pace
Of sentence per dream sentence per Interpretation
Let make it clear at the outset nat the troubles had
with this big burly, affabe book strictly my fault
should have steered clear Of the whole thing should
have harked to my original misgivngs
O. Can any dream that dreamed be described
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Collected Criticisms of Mr.. Nemeroy

POETRY AND FICTION:
Essays by Howard Nemerov.
(RutgerS University Press;
$7.5O.)
Usually poets make shrill
critics, perhaps because being
men in revolt they are often
quite mconsciously carried
away by their convictions and
their messages when they are
relieved Of the restraining
discipline Of verse. Howard
Nemerov is a poet, and while
/ suppose he has convictions,
what is more noticeable in
this volume of collected criti-
ciSm is his curiosity, which is
invariably in operation before
his faculty of judgment. But
the judgment comes in the
end after a fair exposition of
what is being judged, and
each essay, felicitously written
and never far from wit and a
well-turned pungent phrase,
makes highly entertaining
reading. Mr.. Nemerov is
never shriIl, but he takes his
stand, ''for failure to judge"
as he observes, "as the exam
pie Of Cordelia seems to show,
has the effect Of leaving judg-
ment to the mercies Of fools
and Maves, or stupids and
cupids." !"
The greater part Of the book
is devoted to criticism of
poetry-for the most part con-
temporary. but also Shake
speare. Byron, Longfellow,
and, indirectly, La FOntaine.
Then there are chapters on
the short novel, Mann, Coz
zens, NabOkov, and a number
Of other non-poetic literary
subjects. In addition there are
a few unclassified essays,
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EDITORIAL PAGE
DAILY COLUMN

The editorial page feature,
"a Book for Today" this
week:
MONDAY: ''Musicology, "
by Frank L. Harrison, Man
tie Hood and Claude v.
Pahsca. (Prentice-Hall
TUESDAY: cart and Ar
cheology," by James S. Ack-
erman and Rhys Carpenter.
(Prentice-Hall
WEDNESDAY: Religion,
a HumaniStic Field" {" by
Clyde A. Holbrook. (Pren-
dce-Hall.)
(The above books are the
first three volumes in a new
series, HumaniStic Scholar
ship In Am erica-The
Princeton Studies.)
THURSDAY: Alice In
German and French"
FRIDAY: "The Dogma Of
Christ and Other Essays on
Religion, Psychology and
Culture" by Erich Fromm.
(Holt, Rinehart & Winston.)
Evening star., 1963-12-22
Other Books of the Week in Brief

SIS thereafter A richly illus
trated, authoritative panora-
ma of over 400 years of naval
history, from the ancient sea
battle Of Lepanto to the Second
World War. Mr.. Warner, a
leading naval historian, pre-
sentS stirring accounts Of the
strategy, tactics, and histori-
cal significance of each battle
with reproductions of great
battle scenes, diagrams, maps
and plans. A de luxe volume.
PAPERBAcKS
THE NEGRO REVOLT. BY
Louis E. Lomax. (Signet; rs
cents.) The author examines
the SOO-year-old struggle Of
the American Negro for free
dom.
AN OUTLINE OF PSY-
CHOANALYSIS. BY Sigmund
Freud. Translated by James
Strachey. Morton; $1.25.) The
last book by Freud, it serves
both as manual for the lay
man on the fundamentals of
psychoanalysis and a sum-
mary of the principles Of psy-
chology arrived at after a
lifetime Of research and ex-
pertinent.
NEGRO MILITIA AND RE-
CONSTRUCTION. BY Otis A.
Singletary. (McG r a Will
Paperbacks; $2.25.) A story of
the Reconstruction Act Of 1867
and the racial strife that
resulted from 1t.
LYUBKA THE COSSACK
AND OTHER STORIES. BY
Isaac Babel. Translated by
Andrew R. MacAndrew. (Sig-
net; rs cents.) A collection of
stories by an author of whom
Babette Deutsch once said:
"HiS style Is as terse as
algebra, and yet packed with
poetry"
Meg GUFFEY'S SIXTH
ECLECTIC READER. Com
piled by William Holmes Nc
Guffey. (Signet; rs cents.) }
One Of the readers compiled
by McGuffey which were used
as textbooks in the 18th CEN
tury.
THE CARE OF THE
EARTH. By Russell Lord.
(Mentor; 95 centS.) A narra-
tive that begins from the
dawn Of mans existence into
the atomic age reveals the
struggle to exc life out of the
living earth. Analyzing the
condition Of agrarian America,
the author urges the conserva-
ton Of her natural resources.
Evening star., 1963-12-22
MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE
Detective ThriIIers
Good Christmas Gifts
By BETTY JAMES
Star Staff Writer

Mystery fans who missed newcomer NJ Pinaud of the
Sete should welcome his latest adventure among their
Christmas gifts Adventure not quite the word for Pnaud
Investigations exciting and interesting though they are for
their tone and style suggest the depth Of Smenons Maiget
In THE STREET OF GRASS Pierre Audemars (Harper &
Row; $780, Pinaud fights for justice for an Arab justy
accused Of murder in French village where every hand is
turned against the accused and his defender including the
official one
THE 1880 FROM MARSEHLE Bv Sebsstien Janrisot
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-NNN- oSo---~At AAs A~FANA .
dour was rather above aver
age height, slender, relaxed,
supple and elegant; her face
was perfectly matched to her
figure, a perfect oval with
beautiful hair. The finest
skin in the world gave the
greatest radiance to all her
features. Her eyes had a quite
special charm, which possibly
they owed to their indefinable
colour: they had neither the
vivid briIliance Of black eyes,
nor the special subtlety Of
grey eyes; their indetermi-
nate colour seemed to give
them all those seductive gifts
and enabled them to express
succeSSively all the impress
sions Of a restless spirit.
Her whole body seemed to
mark the nuance between the
highest degree Of elegance
and the first degree Of mo-
bility."
Pompadour's relationship
with the King, at first based
on the pleasures Of the royal
bedroom, long outlasted the
transports of love. -Four years
after the iaison, both man
and woman had reason to
want friendship to take the
place Of paSsion-the King be-
cause he wanted to be re-
ceived again into the church,
the mistress because her
health was chronically bad,
she was terrified by encroach-
ing frigidity, and she was
fearful that the King, whom
she loved devotedly, would,
when he lost interest in her as
a mistress, discard her as a
companion. She was wrong
the King was attached to her
by much more lasting bonds
than those of sex. When the
church, assured by the King
that she was no longer his
mistress, stipulated that so
indiscreet and famous a
liaison must be terminated
openly by her departure from
the palace, Louis refused.
During the next 16 years he
took other mistresseS, but
they were passing ones, and
he remained faithful to Pom
padour to the end, unmoved
by church, intrigue, war,
scandal, or the endeavors of
later favoriteS.
Pompadour's success in the
intricate, multi-level intrigue
of the French court seems to
have come from her skill at
setting her enemies against
each other. To her friends she
was always faithful, generous
and considerate. She was a
true patroneSs of the arts
Frances first Minister of Cul-
ture, M. Levron Says-and en-
dowed architects, painters,
musicians and dramatists not
only with money from the
treasury, but with her own
large allowance from the
King. Even this was not suffi-
cient, and she doubled it dur
ing her time in court, if we
can believe what seems in
credible, by gambling.
At the age Of 4S POmpadour
died in Versailles Of broncho-
pneumonia and tuberculosis.
She met death after sitting up
all night in a chair and with a
bon mot on her lips. AS the
priest from the Madeleine
was preparing to leave she
said to him: Zone minute
more, Monsieur lie cure. We
will 60 together.
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Pompadour, although she en-
tered the palaces Of the King
Of France through the offices
Of love, stayed there for 20
years through those of friend
ship.
Reinette Poisson, daughter Of
a man who escaped to Ger
many when accused Of embez-
elements involving $4,000
pounds and the entire grain
supply of Paris, was brought
up largely in an UrSuline con-
vent. Uater, but before the
daughter was known to King
or court, he was completely
exonerated; later still, the
King granted him a title and
gave him an estate in pay
ment for. an allowed claim
against the CROWN Reinette
developed into a great beauty
and a girl Of unusual accom-
pliShments, and was married
when she was 10; it was a
love-match, and the bride
laughingly told her husband:
81 shall never leave you, ex-
cept, Of course, for the King"
It was more than banter,
for, at a time when fortune
telling was no less wide
spread than it is now and
taken far more seriously by
intelligent people, the child
Reinette had been told she
would become the Kings mis-
tress. M. Levron has discov-
cred documents that prove
the incident true rather than
easily and almost inevitably
dreamed into reality after the
fact. Certainly the suggestion
lay fallow and did not die, for
soon after the girls marriage
the King was on several occa-
Sions attracted by the sight Of
a beautiful girl driving a
coach-Reinette's estate was
not far from Versailles, and
the King of France was not
entirely unapproachable.
Friends Of Reinette in court
spoke to Louis about her, much
to the chagrin of his current
mistress. The King sent Rel
nette a gift Of venison.
A&h
The festivities connected
with the marriage Of the
Kings son to Maria Theresa
Of Spain included a masked
ball at Versailles. II Is re-
markable Extraordinary, we
think today that at this ball
anybody, invited or not, was
welcome, provided he wore a
mask and was in proper cos
tune. The crowd was large
but not mammoth, presuma-
bly, because the art of the
society column was less ad-
vanced than it is now. The
King arrived wittily disguised
as one Of seven identical yew-
trees. He sought out the
young beauty, and that night
the "kerchief was thrown" as
the experienced courtiers put
it. They believed, however,
that 1t was only a passing
affair-no King had ever
brought a bOurgeoise to Ver-
Sailles.
This one did, however, and
the woman who was soon to
be made the Marquise de
Pompadour "a name that
rhymes with '.'amour") was to
keep her position there until
her death 20 years later.
She could charm even the
Queen, who seems to have be-
come halfway reconciled to
her. She was described at that
time by a man who had no
reason to hatter her:
''The MarquiSe de Pompa-
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One-Act Plays

CAGES: Two One-Act
Plays, "SnOwangeI" and
Epiphany" By Lewis John
Carlino. o. (Random House;
$S.s5) These we're highly
praised by New York critics
in their off-Broadway debuts
last season. Mr.. Carlino was,
perhaps, most succinctly
described as having a "wildly
inventive mind"
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GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD
RECORDS. BY Norris and
Ross McWhirter. Bantam;
95 cents.) To settle bets with
or just to browse through,
this book is packed with
facts and information about
practically every world rec
ord known to man, from the
oddities of nature to the
world Of sport, to the arts
and entertainment.
Evening star., 1963-12-22
18th Century
Europe Lives
in Biography

in Biography
WILLIAM OF ORANGE. A
Personal Portrait. By Nesca
A. Robb. (St. Martins
Press; $500
Europe in the nth century
was a strange amalgam Of
religious persecution and tol-
erance, Of the divine sponsor
ship Of kings and a growing
movement in the direction Of
republics and individual free
dom, of hourishing arts and
scholarship and an ignorance
fed on witchcraft and black
magic.
The Dutch republic, or Un-
ion Of the Seven Provinces, Of
which Holland was only one,
was at that time one Of the
most enlightened countries.
Child Of Destiny
Into this prosperous, rela-
lively happy republic the
child who was to be known as
William Of Orange was born
in 1850. He was a grandson of
Charles l Of England, and his
m OF b er, Mary Henrietta
Stuart, daughter of Charles /,
heard the dreadful news of
her fathers execution with
Cromwell'S ascension to power
while still the young bride
of William II of Orange in
Holland.
DR.. Robb has written the
story of the early life Of Viii
liam Of Orange, who was des-
tined to rule England, Scot
land and Ireland as William
III from 1889 to 1702.
She has shaped a portrait Of
the maturing william amaz-
ingly well documented and
presented in the glowing
phrases of a. historian who
knows how to write and how
to sketch in the colorful back
ground Of pertinent but con-
fuSing events.
AFine Study
Apparently delving into the
maze as a neutral, DR.. Robb
has emerged with a youth Of
sound education, great ability
and admirable character.
While brought up as a
Dutchman, deeply sympathetic
with the traits and aspirations
of the Dutch States, Will
liam had little Dutch blood.
He was by descent "a sort Of
incarnate League Of Nations"
with lineage derived from
G erm an, French, Italian,
Scottish and Scandinavian
sources. He had no idea that
he would ever be King Of Eng
land or even take a leading
part in the government Of
'the States" While by hered-
ity he should have been Stad-
holder, a sort of federal presi-
dent Of the Dutch, the office
had been abolished by pres
sure Of the enemies Of the
House, Of Orange. It was not
restored until william, at 81,
became captain-general Of the
Dutch forces as the French
under Louis XIV were about
to seize the Low Countries
and the civil office was thrust
on him.
There Is an amusing &C.
count of williams visit to
England when he was 20.
Cromw we'll was dead and
Charles II, the boys uncle,
was King and even then plot
ting with Louis XIV to take
over the Dutch provinces. Viii
liam, who had been reared
strictly, though he was no
prig, went away with the
impression that the court Of
Charles II was a sort OF gl0rl-
fled bawdy house.
The book ends with the as
toniShing feat Of the youthful
generals victory over the
overwhelming army Of the
French and the English fleet
"a combination of military
capacity and diplomatic skill
which enlisted the aid of the
Spanish and persuaded the
English to withdraw from a
war unpopular at home.
One can only look forward
to the second volume in DR..
Robb's biography.
CARTER BROOKE JONES.
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POETRY

EROTIC POETRY. Edited
by william Cole. (Random
House; 1885, This big collec-
tion Of the lyrics, ballads,
idylS and epics Of love spans
all poetic time, from the
classical to the contemporary
but it is particularly rich in
selections from modern poets.
And its most attractive fea-
ture is the fact that it in
cludes so much light verse on
Pamour. Passing up the
merely dirty, it is at all times
witty, urbane and a delight
from beginning to end.
DRAMA
BEST AMERICAN PLAYS.
Fifth Series, 195S-1963. Edited
with an introduction by John
G Gassne er. Grown; $6.5O.)
Surveying the drama scene,
Mr.. Gassner, who teaches
playwriting at Yale, says it's
about par, no better, no worse
than some other five-year
periods in our recent history.
His selection Of plays Che
provides quite revealing COM
mentary on each) range from
MARY, Mary" to who's
Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" to
"Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mammals
Hung You in the Closet and
I'm Feelin' So Sad," by Ar
thur L. Kopit, a newcomer.
SELECTED PLAYS AND
LIBRETTI. BY Hugo Won
Hofmannsthal. Edited, with
an introduction by Michael
Hamburger. (Bollingen Series
XXXIII-3-Pantheon Books;
$500 The range of Hof-
mannSthal's work is shown in
this selection of Electra"
"The SalzDurg Great Theater
Of the World" ''The Tower"
'The Cavalier Of the Rose"
"Arabella," and 1.-THE Diff
cult Man" T. S. Eliot has
contributed a special note on
"The Tower" which he con-
siders HofmannSthal's finest
play.
GENERAL
JOKES FOR CHILDREN.
By Marguerite Kohl and
Frederick Young. chill &
Wang; 49, For those starting
out in life and who must
(they should!) learn the basic
jokes.
GOETHE'S PARABLE. A
New Translation with Com
ments by Alice Raphael.
(Harcourt, Brace & World;
$3.s5.) The famous mystery
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are not alone. Ramp-eaters come
from as far away as California to
60 on ramp-grubbing festivals in
West Virginia. An Arlington ply
stefan, DR.. George Green, makes
regular pilgrimages, surfeiting
himself on a mess and distribut-
ing the rest TO friends around town
and probably winning no addi-
tional friends until the aroma has
left his system.
The potency of ramps stems
from the fact that they have all the
strongest characteristics of onion
and garlic, which also are mem.
bers of the lily family, but less de-
mure about their appearance than
ramps. So potent are ramps that,
according TO Clint Davis, a ramp
Continued
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member of the lily family that
grows wild in the hardwood forests
usually at an elevation above 5000
feet. Often their broad delicate
green leaves are seen in the early
spring poking up through the snow.
Long before most greenery has
spr0uted in the high country,
patches of ramps attractively
speckle the forest floor.
They are pretty; but just eat
handful, and pow! there goes the
top of your head.
Unless, of course, you are an
inveterate ramp eater, as so many
are in the mountains of West Vir-
ginia, where eating ramps has been
a tradition for generations.
AS one native near Spruce
Knob, which is loaded with ramps,
aFrrrnAy MAnAzTNR TIE u
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observed in that wonderful hill
dialect: Most people feel they
amt shed winter til they've ate a
messaramps in spring"
A "messaramps" they always
speak of mess Of ramps as one
word lis like a spring tonic to the
mountain people. The theory is
that back in the days before re-
frigerated foods came to the hills,
ramps were the first fresh green
edibles the local people could lay
their hands on in breaking out of
their harsh winters confinement.
They treked in large numbers,
whole families together, up the
mountain sides to dig them some
ramps" They still do. And they still
call each harvesting tramp festi-
val" But nowadays the natives
uNoToN STAR. JUNE o. 1903
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-09

THEY SAY, back in the hills of
Il West Virginia, that at the
height of the ramp harvesting sea-
son children have to be sent home
from school and patrons put out of
movie houses because they stink
so of ramps.
They say they have known hus-
bands who have eaten an excess of
ramps to be packed off into sepa-
rate rooms by their non-ramp-eat-
ing wives and that If you eat ramps
today, not only will your breath
still reek of ramps a week later, but
the aroma will be coming out your
pores.
So what is this potent food that
drives the non-eaters in panic
from the eaters2
A ramp is an innocent-looking