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Alongside the stream, the neon lights of the handful of motels and restaurants wink on. A heavy truck, loaded with cut pine, rumbles past on U.S. 20. Off to the west, Bishop Peak turns indigo. As the darkness unfurls, Lempke stands in a spot he has stood in a hundred...
The baby emerges from the darkness of the womb with a rudimentary sense of vision -it would be rated about 20/500, or "legally blind," as one expert puts it, but eyesight develops rapidly. Newborns start by looking at the edges of things, exploring. Even when the lights are turned out...
His daily routine approaches a ritual. Early in the morning, he strolls through his sprawling Tokyo compound, with its exquisitely pebbled garden and tiny pools a pa to a spacious reception hall. There he spends the day greeting a parade of visitors. Politicians, businessmen, constituents: they all come to pay...
Now Daimaru, at 72, had time to build a traditional garden with a small fishpond, and he could watch television documentaries and foreign movies late into the night. I asked about the strange bird cries of last evening. "I know them," he said. "They come only with darkness. It'...
In Slouching Towards Kalamazoo, De Vries makes that conflict both hilarious and explicit. Tony's father debates a local dermatologist, who happens to be the town's most vocal atheist, on the subject of Christian belief. Their spirited exchange, waged before an enthralled and partisan audience of locals...