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...human eye, the animals so often seem mirages: now you see them, now you don't. Later, just after dusk, Abyssinian nightjars discover the magic wash of the headlight beams. The birds flit in and out of the barrels of light, like dolphins frisking before a boat's prow. The Land Cruiser jostles, in four-wheel drive, across black volcanic stones toward the camp, the driver steering by the distant light-speck of the cooking fire...
...uninhabited, as a group of festive Owners learn when they flit south in their supersonic choppers for an unusual New Year's Eve party. Placing fun people in trouble spots is a fertile idea, as writers from James Barrie to James Dickey have discovered. Those insulated by class, money and education play at high adventure only to find themselves tested by ordeal. Theroux devises both real and symbolic trials. The aliens pose little physical risk. Disorganized and primitively armed, they are no match for the Owners' incinerating particle beam or a perimeter-protection network that suggests an oversize bug zapper...
With a compendium this massive, the unavoidable starting point is the familiar songs, the ones that flit by on the radio whenever a disc jockey feels guilty or important. "It Ain't Me, Babe," "Mr. Tambourine Man," "Just Like a Woman," and the other early folk-rock crossover songs that established Dylan as a popular artist as well as an intellectual hero resonate as you stare at the words on the page. At once they seem to be both more and less than what they are when sung...
Here is a pictorial exegesis on the subject (counter-clockwise from left) racing mavens get everything shipshape, the MIT boathouse provides a prime fanning arena boats flit by in front on the Boston skyline, Harvard students take to wheels...
...South Florida, the center of the American drug trade, depositors have been known to walk up to a teller's window with a few dollars less than $10,000 in cash. Couriers known as "Smurfs," referring to the cartoon characters, flit from bank to bank buying cashier's checks and money orders for just under the reporting limit. One of the most popular ways to launder money in Florida now is to buy real estate. An estimated $2.5 billion worth of property in that area is believed to have been bought with drug profits...