In contrast to this overdrawn image, the actual extent of judicial reaction before the amnesty strongly suggests that the firm application of criminal justice would not have produced another
hecatomb. True, a fair hearing probably could not have been had anywhere from Lyon to Marseille.
In Latin America, a number of nation-states meet two or more of these criteria with regard to indigenous peoples, with the combinations suggesting in several cases the potential for geostrategic
hecatomb. None, however, except for Bolivia, are represented in the last category.
Hitler survived the
hecatomb by closeting himself in the Fuhrerbunker with his longtime mistress, Eva Braun, and his Nazi family of military and civilian retainers.
With the battlefield news uniformly grim, with the battle of the Somme swallowing up men by the
hecatomb, and with 100,000 tons of shipping lost every month to German U-boats, radical measures were clearly called for.
40 In ancient Greek and Roman times, what, precisely, was sacrificed according to the name of the major public ritual called a
hecatomb?
The ecological disaster allegorizes the disappearance of the other insofar as the world of humans was a geography of "intermediation," "other people"'s home; the environmental catastrophe was also a
hecatomb of the other.
The meaning of speech, then, requires that before any word is spoken, there must be a sort of immense
hecatomb, a preliminary flood plunging all of creation into a total sea.
Liddell Hart referred to him as the "Mahdi of mass and mutual massacre" whose belief in the necessity of slaughter led to the
hecatomb of the Great War.
Civilization is sickened by the
hecatomb of September 11; its enemies are emboldened by it.
Heberto Padilla, however famous he became, and for however brief a time, was only one among this
hecatomb. That makes the obscurity of his death horrible, as abominable as the regime that oppressed and, truth to tell, destroyed him.
"When you getup from the pastures, like a shepherd(ess)" (line 23) is thus strongly ironic: she pretends to be a protector of the flocks, but she causes a
hecatomb among domestic animals.
Yet everything in Martel's powerful chapters on the AIDS "
hecatomb" can also serve to remind American readers of our own missteps, our willful ignorance, our self-sustaining denials, our comforting conspiracy theories.
