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...bowl, he tasted the other. Not bad--there was some fish in it...He dug in. First he only drank the broth, drank and drank. As it went down filling his whole body with warmth, all his guts began to flutter inside him at their meeting with the stew. Goo--ood!" It is explicit that Ivan is locked into a fate from which he cannot return home. "No one ever left the camps alive." His day evokes more a feeling of melancholy than horror because the situation is so hopeless...
Despised Origins. Like several other cities, Chicago purifies sewage with a combination of mechanical and chemical processes. One product is clean water. The other is "sludge," a black goo that smells like tar and has the consistency of pea soup. The sanitary district's problem has been what to do with the sludge. In the past, Chicago sold tons of dried sludge to Florida citrus growers as fertilizer. But drying the waste caused massive amounts of air pollution and was expensive...
...flop, because sanitation men ran up against a basic American prejudice. Though U.S. farmers have never hesitated to use animal manure, they quailed at the thought of sludge, which is basically purified human manure. Public outcry effectively banned sludge from the county. In desperation, the sanitary district dumped the goo into man-made "lagoons" that it had bulldozed years before into 450 acres of the potentially best industrial land around Chicago...
...Goo Spray. District officials did not need to be asked twice. After buying 7,000 acres, they set up a small test project. "It was amazing," says Bart T. Lyman, chief of maintenance and operations. "Corn planted on three acres of land treated with sludge grew eight feet tall. By comparison, the stalks on two acres of untreated land were stunted, only three feet high...
...Wingate also reports a bright spot amid the goo. The Bermuda cahow, a rare marine bird supposedly doomed by pesticides flushed into the ocean, is apparently staging a comeback. This year the world's last 24 pairs of cahows have produced twelve healthy chicks. A likely reason, Wingate thinks, might be that the rising tide of floating tar is at least temporarily absorbing the harmful pesticides...