But however assured Aeneas' destiny, the path is strewn with mangled corpses, split heads and fractured shields.
Mr. Chais told the writer he can put together anything--shattered heads, mangled bodies--and work miracles if the mood strikes him.
Economists might shake their heads at mangled logic and garbled statistics; but in the early 90's, many thoughtful Americans, William Jefferson Clinton among them, found them convincing.
Some appear to be sleeping, fingers curling their hair, thumbs pressing at their lips, while others with multiple heads and mangled limbs are listless and slumped.
His smaller sculptures - the mangled busts, the pirate heads with penis-eyes and cock-and-ball hats, the evil, grinning Jack Palance types - show that he has a sculptor's sensibility, as much as an errant film-maker's or an opera director's.
"The driver was completely mangled and bleeding from the head," he said.
How did you do the mangled hand?
He's upside down trying to turn, to rotate his body, stunned and quivering like a mangled worm, trying to lift his head, to breathe, to open his mouth, a terrible throbbing pain in his neck, in his upper spine.
You know the mangled pigeon carcasses and severed rat heads aren't offerings to earn your affection, but warnings of what you are to soon become.
