Word: embers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been on a voyage through uncharted waters far from the Mediterranean island of Pianosa, the setting for his World War II novel. His voyage in Something Happened takes him through the psyche of one man, Robert Slocum. And like Ulysses, sleeping under a pile of leaves, like an ember buried beneath ashes, a small seed of light from his previous work has survived. The bright, animated fires of Catch-22 have died down, but now a new fire has sprung from its still-hot coals, burning a blue flame of discontent and throwing dissonant shadows...
They wander the blasted landscapes of the American future, bickering among themselves, sifting through the ashes of a vanished civilization for some ember to kindle a new world. They do not find one, but instead end up bitter, divided and confused-failed ancestors of a race that will remain unborn...
Evans will also visit schools along the East Coast this fall in an attempt to reverse the decline in black applications from high schools in the corridor between and including Boston and Washington. He commented, however, that successful recruiting requires "more than a one-day visit--it requires an ember burning all the time...