Two years later he was dead of stomach cancer, his novel confiscated, "arrested" as he said, for he had assaulted Soviet totalitarianism.
However, for those deemed traitors, the penalty was often being dragged through the streets, hung until almost dead, the stomach drawn open with a blade and the entrails spilled onto a red hot plate.
Officers from the Manatee County sheriff's office arrived to find Brignoni, a landscape gardener, cutting open the dead animal's stomach with a knife.
But when you've spent several hours a day for 20 years vigorously shaking a dead goat's stomach filled with milk to make butter, the novelty has long worn off.
Details of frostbite cures (immersion in a dead buffalo's stomach) are interesting; less so are passages full of stock Indian wisdom and natives cursing like brothers in the 'hood ("fucking white boy").More troubling are the lessons implied by this cruel cycle of seizure and revenge.
After the decapitation, a seaman slashed open the dead man's stomach, declaring "Something for the other day.
The next time anyone saw Benito was when his dead body chest and stomach punctured with gunshot wounds was found at a local hospital.
Mann, described by a psychiatrist as "a remorseless, callous psychopath" who "harbours cannibalistic urges", also stabbed Harrison in the eye with a pen and, after he was dead, cut his stomach open.
And in this space I find myself steeped in the familiar feeling of dread that I had before going to Midway Island to photograph dead albatrosses whose stomachs are filled with plastic.
Anquetil's love of the good life finally caught up with him – he was dead at 53 from stomach cancer.
