Good Reads: The Gate

Good Reads: The Gate

François Bizot’s near-genocide experience Reviewed by Stephen Sheeran   For several years I struggled to come to terms with this new knowledge. Often when I woke in the night, horrific pictures sprang unbidden to my mind—Satan [one of the apes], cupping his hand below Sniff’s chin to drink the blood that welled from a great wound on his face; old Rodolf, usually so benign, standing upright to hurl a four-pound [1.8 kg] rock at Godi’s prostrate b…