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...Miller has come back for the cat. The flames are only a few feet away. They look like something alive -- a platoon of flames, no, a battalion, marching across the brush toward the house Miller has lived in for five years in the El Morro Beach trailer park on the outskirts of Laguna Beach, California. His wife evacuated their trailer hours earlier, but when Miller heard the cat was here, he returned, hiking two miles when the police forced him to get out of his car. Now he can see the fire heading for his house, and not a fire...
...ushering in what author Joan Didion has called "the season of suicide and divorce and prickly dread . . ." If the state is unlucky, a spark, man-made or natural, will strike the canyon vegetation, thick and green in the damp months but now dried to tinder. The spiky brown chaparral brush will ignite like old Christmas trees, and a canyon will become a fire corridor through which flames roar faster than a man can run, burning at temperatures high enough to melt metal, billowing to start yet more fires $ and driving walls of flame to the ocean...
These tales are the work of a master entering a new period and painting with smaller brush strokes. They are treatises on exile, displacement and orphanhood that also contain meditations on old age, the approach of death, the suddenness of life and the redemptive power of love. In Garcia Marquez pilgrimage across a vast landscape, the destination is for the most part unimportant; what matters is the wondrous journey...
...this development: "You want to kill me but you can't." Feeling thus elevated, Max disengages from his former life, abusing his beautiful wife and son and flaunting various conventions of society. While Max gets his thrills from risking his life periodically and hanging out with other brush-with-death-survivor buddies, his devoted and one-dimensional wife (Isabella Rosellini) is apparently confined to the house, as well as to a limited repertoire of worries and complaints about his new persona...
Harvard students from southern California have stayed close to their radios and TV sets over the past few days, wondering whether their homes and families have fallen victim to more than a dozen brush fires which have burned nearly 100,000 acres in California since Wednesday night...