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Love would dominate Venus if language did not drench it. Language is Fry's own true love, and Venus catches the glow of poetry, the mocking glints of parody, the flashing of rhetoric and the shimmer of wit. Amid such a tangle of traffic lights, traffic itself snarls, detours and halts. In The Lady's Not for Burning, with its medieval echoes and broomstick leaps of witchcraft and romance, Fry could be simultaneously prankster and poet, could spoof the very verse he spouted. But Venus Observed is modern, sophisticated, drawing-room bred, .and its ironies, at times, stare...
...manners of Western Europe to woman's advantage. Item: men were no longer permitted to shamble, hang-stocking and grime-necked from the chase, into a lady's presence; instead, the bear-limbed barons were required to get up in gay, slashed mantles and pointed shoes and drench themselves in a daze of scent...
...swarms with watchful Geiger counters. They are usually clicking phlegmatically, but they can roar a sudden warning if anything goes wrong. In each building is a place on the floor marked "shower." A worker who has spilled a dangerous substance on his clothes can dash to the shower and drench himself with life-saving water...
They did not drench the entire five square miles with DDT. Instead, fly expert Dr. C. H. Curran began to prowl the park, mapping it from a fly's point of view. From intimate knowledge of fly psychology, he knew what places they would consider beauty spots, where they would go for refreshment, amusement and procreation...
They had a six-to-one superiority in the air. They had artillery to deal with the tanks which the enemy hurled recklessly at them-they knocked out 1,000 German tanks in a week. There was plenty of time. It was three months before the autumn rains would drench the Polish flatlands...