Camp Concentration
Disch, Thomas M
The unlikely hero of
this piece is Louis Sacchetti, an overweight poet who's serving a
five-year prison term for being a "conchie," or conscientious objector,
to the ongoing war being fought by the United States. Three months into
his sentence, Sacchetti is mysteriously taken from prison and brought to
Camp Archimedes, an underground compound run by General Humphrey Haast.
This is the so-called "camp concentration" of the book's title,
a strange oubliette where inmates are given a drug that will raise
their intelligence to astounding levels, though it will also kill them
in a matter of months.
Sacchetti's job is to chronicle the
goings-on at Archimedes in a daily journal that is sent to Haast and
other select members of the project. Through his writings, readers get
to know the various characters that inhabit the camp, geniuses whose
intellectual fires burn brightly even while their bodies slowly go cold.
Although these latter-day Einsteins are supposed to be thinking up new
ways of killing the enemy, most of the inmates are instead focusing
their studies on alchemy, which Haast hopes will allow them to discover
the secret of immortality.
this piece is Louis Sacchetti, an overweight poet who's serving a
five-year prison term for being a "conchie," or conscientious objector,
to the ongoing war being fought by the United States. Three months into
his sentence, Sacchetti is mysteriously taken from prison and brought to
Camp Archimedes, an underground compound run by General Humphrey Haast.
This is the so-called "camp concentration" of the book's title,
a strange oubliette where inmates are given a drug that will raise
their intelligence to astounding levels, though it will also kill them
in a matter of months.
Sacchetti's job is to chronicle the
goings-on at Archimedes in a daily journal that is sent to Haast and
other select members of the project. Through his writings, readers get
to know the various characters that inhabit the camp, geniuses whose
intellectual fires burn brightly even while their bodies slowly go cold.
Although these latter-day Einsteins are supposed to be thinking up new
ways of killing the enemy, most of the inmates are instead focusing
their studies on alchemy, which Haast hopes will allow them to discover
the secret of immortality.
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Année:
1968
Edition:
Hardcover
Editeur::
Hardt-Davis
Langue:
english
Pages:
177
ISBN 10:
0375705457
ISBN 13:
9780375705458
Fichier:
EPUB, 232 KB
IPFS:
,
english, 1968
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