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...aware of the fact that she and Joey are "living in sin," but he tacitly approves--in fact, their relationship gives him access to Joey's energy and desire to do something useful. No sooner does Henry suggest that they could be great partners if Joey ever established an eel-trapping business, then Joey spends $50 to purchase materials and start building the traps himself...
High over the winding Eel River, wooded hills stretch to the Pacific Ocean. The mist rolls in, blanketing the valley below. On the forest floor, a tiny white butterfly alights on a fiddlehead fern. And from the canopy of a giant redwood, a voice crackles over the walkie-talkie. "I'm running out of power," it says, with a note of urgency. "Can you send up another cell-phone battery...
...also a Jew living in Budapest in 1941. Soros has called the years the most important of his life. Grove calls Soros "totally different from me in that respect." The time, he insists, hasn't marked him. But late at night, over Scotch and sushi--Grove is partial to eel--the stories slip...
Moving on to lighter subjects, The Mollusk continues to build mini-stories around a whale and eel. Resembling The Beatles' "Octopus' Garden" a little too closely, "Polka Dot Tail" couples the eternal question "Have you ever seen a whale/With a polka dot tail" with "Have you ever tried to shrink/Like an ice cube in the sink." Apparently these are pertinent questions to the waterlogged minds of Ween's 11 band members. Exploring nothing musically or lyrically novel, "The Golden Eel" trudges through an unrevealing revelation: "Watching the eel/Help me find the way home...Daylight has come/I can not repeal/The words...
Brown evokes the sleek surrealism of Tokyo--where dogs are rented by the hour and people eat green-tea tiramisu cake--with economical aplomb. Even better, he offsets such Tomorrowland aspects with lyrical images of Toshi's rural home, where women eat grilled eel while watching Audrey Hepburn and go looking for candleweed and ghost mushrooms. Toshi is as much a foreigner in Tokyo as any American might be, yet his two worlds are knit together with an exacting precision, with fishermen's nets "the color of dried persimmon," and an American's blanket having "the color of squid just...