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...hours in the cold. The sun sank down toward the tree line. A few thin films of moisture in the sky caught the sideways light and shimmered briefly with rainbows. We waited until it was completely dark. Then we returned to Vito’s stand...
...dark vision of China in The Crazed is that "of an old hag so decrepit and brainsick that she would devour her children to sustain herself." As Jin sees it, the Chinese are walled in on all sides: the intellectuals by a culture of falsehood, the students by tanks and troops, the peasants by their relentless poverty and everyone by paralyzing fear. In Waiting, Jin explored the emotional cost of enduring within those walls, but in The Crazed the pressure is simply too much. The dream of so many can be deferred no longer. Like a stroke, the only...
...village of Laxe. Long a graveyard for ships, the area has now seen three major oil disasters since 1976. Toja's depressed mood matched that of his neighbors, among them the owners of three small boats who had gone out to fish beyond the exclusion zone. There, in the dark, the men were terrified to find themselves surrounded by "a raft of a gluey substance that glistened in the moonlight," says one of the fishermen, Manuel Toja. "It was so thick we felt we were stuck in it." Back in port - with their nets, buoys and lobster traps ruined...
Sketchiest moment at Harvard: The first time I had to do research in Widener, getting locked in the stacks in the dark after closing...
...Gloucester, to the Weeks Footbridge near the river, to finally our adventure out to the IM fields,” Whitmire said. “The show was cool, there were a lot of people out there too, but I don’t think it was dark enough to see all the showers...