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Roar: muffler or exhaust system...
...long the inspiration of poets and composers, have been stricken by a mysterious blight, which one newspaper attributed to a death wish on the part of the trees caused by Italy's booming capitalism. The trees, complained the paper, no longer want to live, faced with all the exhaust fumes from motorcars and "the streams of reinforced concrete that Rome, like a volcano, spews forth...
...most effect on urban populations that have been predisposed to the actions of pollen by such stimuli as auto exhaust fumes, chimney smoke and smog...
...hard, Graham, or you'll blow it up." He screwed in his earplugs, snapped his helmet strap and adjusted his goggles. "Hey," he yelled to Mechanic Tony Robinson. "Where's my chewing gum?" Robinson handed him a stick. Moss waved. "Here goes," he said. Then, exhaust crackling fiercely, he roared off to the starting line...
...first words, "The Marquise went out at five." The book is to be taken as an answer to Valery's implied charge that plain statement of fact is dull. "A pure exercise in virtuosity, you might say at first glance," says Mauriac. "Yet never gratuitous. But how to exhaust the gifts of reality?" Mauriac, who explains that he prefers literal exactitude to literature because he has "purified [his writing] of the last traces of fiction," certainly displays more than virtuosity. But how far can any author go with just a random thought-recorder? For no man needs...