Here is an excerpt from the beginning of the book:
It should be made clear at the beginning that the Rape of the World does not refer to soil erosion, the balance of trade, the depletion of the fishing grounds, or to any other of the flabby modern distortions of the word.
It refers to the bodies of the women.
It refers to women in New York City, and Liverpool, and Singapore, and Minsk, to women in the valleys of the Missouri, the Yangtze, the Ganges, the Danube, and the Amazon. In fact, it refers to women almost everywhere on the planet Earth.
And the time is-well, exactly what is the time? Einstein proved there is no Public Time, only 2 great variety of Private Times, ticking away in their own separate rhythms.
What has happened-or will happen, depending on your vantage point in time-was (or will be) completely unspeakable. Some say it was sent by God to punish us for our sins. Others believed it was a proof there is no God, and some even thought it was 2 a calculated--perhaps misguided-step toward the evolution Of 2 God -or gods. The latter was an extreme view.
Many were shocked beyond words, for reasons customary among the tribes of Earth. Anything that touches upon biological reproduction, or sex, invariably sends them into a frenzy. They fear that the young will discover it is there.
But there is no use trying to hide the facts with a fig leaf. The whole episode was not only related to sex, but saturated with it sodden and overloaded with it in a manner so blatant and uncompromising that-well, it was as dependent upon sex as life itself.
The whole event was so unbearable and unthinkable that it must be considered only in a mood of levity, lightly and gaily. One must resolve to be, or pretend to be, in the midst of a kind of joke and try, nervously perhaps, even to laugh.
It would not be endurable in any other way.
In this moment of private time it was (or will be) mid-October on the planet Earth, and its Northern Hemisphere had already begun to tilt away from the sun.
No human brain born of Earth was yet aware of what was in store. Many would not be for months.
One of the first humans to be touched by the chain of events was (or will be) a young widow named Frances, at the time visiting her brother Beauford (pronounced bewford) Abel, in a Victorian relic of a house near a salt-water marsh on the North Shore of Long Island, about twenty miles east of New York City.
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