Among the lush descriptive scenes in " The Ordinary Seaman " are a few wonderful images that evoke the larger truths of the novel : a broken clock; a soldier clutching a childhood doll through the battles he always survives; a cache of goods Esteban finds while foraging for food, containing not manna from heaven but infinite Parcheesi games.
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At the height of her popularity, Pollyanna was known as " The Glad Girl ", and Parker Brothers even created " The Glad Game ", a board game . " The Glad Game ", a type of Parcheesi, was made and sold from 1915 to 1967 in various versions, similar to the popular UK board game " Ludo ".
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These texts and commentaries are supplemented by others, including pages from a script of a movie that had starred Roth's parents; pages from a proposed Classics Illustrated comic devoted to the " Kamasutra "; several CD-ROM screens; the privately printed memoirs of a randy Victorian colonialist; a synopsis of a feminist forgery of a nonexistent " Kamasutra " written from a woman's point of view ( a " discovery " of a self-invented scholar who calls herself Tajma Hall ); a " Kamasutra " board game ( more fun than Parcheesi ); the autobiography of the priapic movie star Jock Newhouse ( English for Jacques Casanova ); an interview in a porn magazine called Cocktail; some correspondence between Leo Delibes, the composer of the opera " Lakme, " and the widow of the first English translator of the " Kamasutra,"
