Word: dust
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...book opens with Hanawa in jail, awaiting transfer to the larger prison. There he ponders the mystery of the dust that accumulates overnight and imagines himself as a fat pig, penned up with nothing to do but eat. Once in prison, Hanawa shares a cell with four others and goes about the regimented routine of a factory prisoner who works on carving wooden tissue boxes. Recreated with a meticulousness rarely found in comix, the book includes floor plans, daily schedules and sartorial options. Food turns into a fascinating preoccupation throughout the book, with frequent asides on the exact menu...
They left behind the posh accommodations and comforts of the United States in favor of somewhat questionable conditions in the dust of Kazakhstan...
...point, I was standing in the front of the bus,” Sweet said. “I tried to see the back, and I couldn’t, because of all the dust...
...knew him. Yet as Sherry brings his massive project to a close with The Life of Graham Greene, Volume III: 1955-1991 (Viking; 906 pages), the overwhelming impression is that the professionally elusive Greene--an "old fox," as he called himself--has left a lumbering bear in the dust...
Even for the casually religious, such seeming reductionism can rankle. The very meaning of faith, after all, is to hold fast to something without all the tidy cause and effect that science finds so necessary. Try parsing things the way geneticists do, and you risk parsing them into dust. "God is not something that can be demonstrated logically or rigorously," says Neil Gillman, a professor of Jewish philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. "[The idea of a God gene] goes against all my personal theological convictions." John Polkinghorne, a physicist who is also Canon Theologian...