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...supernatural reminiscent of a South American fable and political intrigue worthy of John le Carre. The scene is a haunted, Haiti-like island, and the four main characters are a blunt Manhattan policeman, a slippery arms dealer, a volatile Caribbean dictator whose paranoia is justified and an apparently immortal dwarf who serves the others as an all-knowing but helpless intermediary...
...table: "Stretched out on the floor could only encourage the lowest of surmises." His equally malicious mother, listening to the plea on bended knee of the duped servant's wife, says imperiously, "Get up, child. A thing is not made more impressive by being said by a dwarf." Lest anyone miss the relevance of this portrait of privilege, Bond and Composers Nick Bicat and John McKinney have interspersed 15 eerie, offbeat songs, their lyrics tinged with references to tanks, gas chambers, rockets and other modern manifestations of authoritarian evil...
Optical observations of X-ray nova A0620-00 made by McClintock and Remillard show a binary system in which one member is a dwarf star and the other is a black hole, the closest yet found to the earth. During outburst, stellar material drawn from the star and falling into the gravitational field of the black hole produces more energy than 10,000 suns...
Along the way Davies populates early 20th century Canada and England with characters that leap off the page and both fascinate with their oddity and inform with their basic humanity. There is the dwarf tailor in Cornish's small town, Blairlogie, who a group of town toughs humiliate one night. Despairing, he hangs himself. Cornish sketches him in the morgue and this dwarf eventually becomes the subject of one of Cornish's greatest paintings...
Casmalia Resources is open 24 hours, and every day about a hundred trucks roll in and out. The vast site could be on Mars. Hills and canyons are denuded. The great dirt expanses where steel drums are buried dwarf the bulldozers and moon-suited workers. Dozens of deep pools of dark, still liquids, interconnected by a web of white pipes running uphill and down, pock the landscape. Oily sludge is stirred into the ground. A tanker truck squirts full blast into a waste pond. With its tidy system of interlacing roads and sharply etched contours, the dump is as neat...