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...sense, there is a lot of dizzy fun in the book. Edward Whittemore is more an engaging long-distance liar than a novelist, and his scheme for persuading literature to lurch forward is simply to introduce another freakish impossibility whenever reason's vague outline is sighted through the fog...
Right and left there are other things happening just as bad--crazy horrible things too goofy and outlandish to cry about and too much true to laugh about--but the fog is getting thick enough I don't have to watch . . . Idiot, you just had a nightmare; things as crazy as a big machine room in the bowels of a dam where people are cut up by robot workers don't exist...
...FOG was just beginning to lift from the ocean when we went to Point Lobos. In the sun, it looked like baskets of cotton tumbling over; a light golden haze, mixed with the green and brown of Marin heights across the channel. Ray and I climbed down on the deep-scarred rocks and went into a small cave hidden between a deep cut in the rocks. We could hear the small waves smack crisply outside, but inside the small grotto our voices were dull and hollow. Ray began talking about school...
According to the U.S. Coast Guard, fog blankets Eastport more than 60 days a year. Beyond that, the waters are treacherous and powerful tides often submerge navigational buoys. One of the few pilots now licensed to guide large ships into Eastport, Captain Amos Mills, testified at public environmental hearings: "The only thing that Eastport has going for it is deep water; and when that is balanced against the fog and the currents, there is little to recommend the place for tanker traffic." Canada is even considering a law forbidding supertankers from crossing the Canadian waters that provide the only access...
...solid 30 pages done the first evening. Setting a schedule, Stevens cranked out one page every 15 minutes; four per hour; and managed 30 in seven hours with one break for a Schweppes and a walk out into the fog...