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Employees of Widener Library are concerned that a "Pardon our dust" policy during preparations for the June renovations may be causing them more than just inconvenience...
...though library officials say there is nothing to worry about, employees say concerns about silica dust--a potential carcinogen--in the air have not been adequately answered...
Annie Proulx twirls words like a black-hat badman twirling Colts, fires them off for the sheer hell of it, blam, blam, no thought of missing, empty beer cans jump in the dust, misses one, laughs, reloads, blams some more. Something like that...
...through scabland and slope country, in and out of the tiger shits..." (the reader fumbles this one but is swept on) "... over the tawny plain still grooved with pilgrim wagon ruts, into early darkness and the first storm laying down black ice, hard orange dawn, the world smoking, snaking dust devils on bare dirt, heat boiling out of the sun until the paint on the truck hood curled, ragged webs of dry rain that never hit the ground..." On this fine recitation goes, by sheer loopy eloquence getting a couple of beat-up bull riders from rodeo to rodeo...
Ultimately, when the dust from this intergalactic name-calling slugfest settles, the fact remains: both Star Wars and Star Trek are awesome. Both are excellent and well-made, both carry good themes and good messages, both boast strong characters and strong storylines. Both are wildly-successful, and both deserve all the respect in the world...