No matter what happens, Donald J. Trump is going to win the eight electoral votes granted to my religiously red and redly religious state — Louisiana.
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There are some awkward sex scenes ("His dead white hairy limbs appeared impaled on the stem of his unaccountably wrinkly erection which he took in his fist and seemed to squirt redly at her").
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First published in Red Shadows. Kane plays a minimal role in this story. A condemned wizard, Roger Simeon, seeks revenge on John Redly, the man who betrayed him. Kane arrives in a tavern, where he is greeted by John Redly, whom is bragging about having played a fundamental role in the capture of Roger Simeon, a necromancer that will be executed the following morning.
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Kane is paralyzed by terror as he watched the thing climb the bed of Redly and, than, drop down to his neck and, an instant later, crack its bones. As John Redly lies dead, Kane is able to peirce the thing with the tip his sword, only to see that it is a human hand, covered with black hair and with a snake-shaped ring on its middle finger. The following morning, Kane is leaving the town and meets a young boy, whom tells hime that Roger Simeon, the necromancer, has been hanged at dawn and when he died, he had a deep smile on his face. Asked by Kane, the boy also tells him that the wizard went to the gallows pole with one hand only, since, as his last will, the night before, he had asked the prison guards to cut his right hand and cast it outside the prison window.
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Kane despises him as a traitor, even though his action had allowed the capture of an evil individual. During the night, Kane is awakened by a strange noise that seems to come from outside the room window and, when he watches outside, he can see something entering the room next to his. Kane holds his sword and enters the nearby room, where Redly is asleep. The window is open and a weird thing, similar to a large black spider, is crawling inside.
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Much of Campbell's verse was satirical and written in heroic couplets, a form otherwise rare in 20th-century English verse. Rhymed verse was generally his favoured medium. One modern assessment of his poetry is that "he was vigorous in all he wrote, but not distinctly original."The Bloomsbury Guide to English Literature, Bloomsbury: 1989 This is Campbell celebrating fertility and sexuality, in Anadyomene (1924): > Maternal Earth stirs redly from beneath Her blue sea-blanket and her quilt > of sky, A giant Anadyomene from the sheath And chrysalis of darkness; till > we spy Her vast barbaric haunches, furred with trees, Stretched on the > continents, and see her hair Combed in a surf of fire along the breeze To > curl about the dim sierras, where Faint snow-peaks catch the sun's far- > swivelled beams: And, tinder to his rays, the mountain-streams Kindle, and > volleying with a thunderstroke Out of their roaring gullies, burst in smoke > To shred themselves as fine as women's hair, And hoop gay rainbows on the > sunlit air.
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