Word: gabriola
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...Kerry's military record are the hot item, Kerry can't take it and has demanded that Bush call off the dogs. Maybe Kerry should show what kind of man he is by speaking out against the kind of unbalanced politicking that Moore's film represents. Lloyd A. Marshall Gabriola, Canada...
...Kerry's military record are the hot item, Kerry can't take it and has demanded that Bush call off the dogs. Maybe Kerry should show what kind of man he is by speaking out against the kind of unbalanced politicking that Moore's film represents. Lloyd A. Marshall Gabriola, Canada...
October Ferry to Gabriola, like Malcolm Lowry's generously praised Under the Volcano, is a romantic, convoluted prose journey in quest of an easeful death. It is not a completed novel, however. According to Margerie Lowry, the author's widow, this published version is her "sorting out" of numerous drafts of chapters, paragraphs and even sentences that Lowry began to write in 1946. It started with his notes on a trip to the islands off British Columbia. These became a short story. Then the story grew first into a novella and finally into an amorphous novel full...
...time they near their goal-Gabriola, an island on Canada's West Coast -they have been transformed into a pair of unearthly representatives of a pagan diaspora. And not too subtly. The fire and water that drove them from their previous homes are invested with stage magic. Old men mutter about the qualities of wood as if spirits lived in the grain. Llewelyn feels foreshadowings in everything from snatches of movie dialogue to highway billboards. Symbols wash up out of the sea and appear...
...Llewelyn, who somehow equates his abuse of alcohol with a magician's misuse of his powers, Gabriola beckons like a nondenominational land of the dead. Like Hades, it is a waiting room for both heaven and hell-a nice quiet place with no scheduled activities...