The protagonist of this novel dreams about trying and failing to sacrifice a lamb to God with two of his college friends, and killing it with a stone after it escapes.
While visiting his fiancée's apartment, the protagonist of this novel feels his tongue turn into a "fat thumb," and compares that fiancée to the Buddha. While carousing with an old man, two characters in this novel pretend to be Krafft-Ebbing and Havelock Ellis. The protagonist of this novel dreams about trying and failing to sacrifice a lamb to God with two of his college friends, and killing it with a stone after it escapes. In the title character's bedroom, an ivory Christ has been pried off its crucifix and nailed to the wall. Its protagonist goes to an old farmhouse in Connecticut with his fiancée Betty and sleeps with Fay Doyle, whose crippled husband Peter shoots him. For 10 points, name this novel in which the editor Shrike torments the title advice columnist, a work by Nathanael West.
While visiting his fiancée's apartment, the protagonist of this novel feels his tongue turn into a "fat thumb," and compares that fiancée to the Buddha.
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