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...Freaks abound. You've been to Au Bon Pain. `Nuff said...
When it comes to gore, The Stand is more restrained than most King horror shows, but its metaphysical flights are prodigal. Dreams and visions abound, and the demonic villain has supernatural powers of indeterminate nature. King can't resist throwing everything into the pot. A TV movie about the apocalypse can get away with quoting Eliot ("This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper") or Yeats ("What rough beast . . . slouches towards Bethlehem?"), but probably not both. Still, even when The Stand skirts tedium and pretentiousness, King is a rough beast that TV is lucky...
Other urban myths abound. Nicholas Gordon '95, who is based in Durban on the coast, told me of a woman at a public meeting who asked whether the ANC would really take over her house after the elections. Apparently, a man had knocked at her door, asked for a glass of water, and returned it with a R2 coin at the bottom "as down payment for your house...
Purists in physics departments cringe these days, as more of the faithful leave the scientific fold. Stories of rocket scientists making a name for themselves at Salmon Brothers and Goldman Sachs abound...
...fashioned tales, resurrecting issues like passivity vs. action and honesty vs. self-delusion, and relying on such time-honored devices as unreliable narrators, characters who turn out to be angels in disguise, and good old melodrama. Echoes of past masters -- Henry James and John O'Hara, for instance -- abound. What saves the stories from seeming contrived is their natural assurance of voice (the sentences read as if spoken aloud), their steadiness of moral compass and their acuity -- often humorous -- of detail...