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...trail has already gone cold. They cannot track him down. They are alone and bewildered in a squalid, industrial Mexican city. During that suspended moment - with the smell of revelation in the air but the actual article nowhere to be found, as if the author had accidentally left it in his other coat - Part 1 ends. Bolaño has not told us what Archimboldi's books are about, or anything about them at all besides their titles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolaño's 2666: The Best Book of 2008 | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

...artworks: he hangs up a geometry textbook outside his house by a string so that the elements can gradually corrupt and destroy its tidy diagrams. He contemplates the book for hours as random, meaningless, non-Euclidean reality invades it, forcing it to register the presence of a world it cannot describe. It is not one of Bolaño's most successful digressions, but it is an excellent metaphor for 2666 itself: "Images with no handhold," the professor says of those ruined pages, "images freighted with all the orphanhood in the world, fragments, fragments." This is the novel corrupted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolaño's 2666: The Best Book of 2008 | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

...Having a president and a vice president who actually think that climate change is a serious issue cannot be a bad thing,” said Daniel P. Schrag, the director of the Center for the Environment and a professor of earth and planetary sciences...

Author: By Nan Ni and Kevin Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Labs for Change: High Hopes for Obama | 11/7/2008 | See Source »

...cooed. “Kiss me with the kisses of your mouth,” he moaned at last and Roxanna bent down and pressed her lips innocently against those of her employer. “You are saved,” she murmured. “He cannot touch you any more.” She felt Frederick’s tongue swim into her mouth like a fish, and for the first time she felt a slow uncoiling of pleasure in the untouched recesses of her being. Frederick pulled back at last and looked at her with wonder...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Stable Boy: Chapter 12 | 11/7/2008 | See Source »

...country is showing its forward evolution, that the color of one's skin cannot inhibit one's ability, and that's worthy of celebration," said Corey Booker, mayor of Newark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Obama's Election Really Means to Black America | 11/6/2008 | See Source »

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