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...steps. But for the past few years, any kind of dance has been just the wrong metaphor for Soviet-American relations. The two superpowers have been circling each other warily, sometimes menacingly. If they came together, many feared, it would be to fight. Now, suddenly, there is a faint hint of tango music...
...corridors that resemble a vulture's rib cage; his lair is a rococo igloo; walls close in on Lyssa like giant pillows. The senior good guys, notably Ynyr and Cyclops, move with a certain sad majesty. The Cyclops' knowing wink (or is it a blink?) is a hint of mature fatalism: he knows too much about this world-our world-to participate wholeheartedly in its redemption...
...were being made to contact the person who had it or saw it last. At no time were my messages or calls returned. Nor was the mystery person ever found as far as I have been informed. Then, a couple of days after Commencement, the House offered its first hint that the banner might have been moved in arrangements for Commencement. A week later, the story was final. The banner was lost in the "Commencement shuffle...
...pretend that they are not the people who make history. Self-conscious about their central role in carving out a portrait of the past, they lapse into academic mumbling. Pick a manageable (small) subject, process enough data, arrange all available figures into charts and graphs, studiously suppress any hint of narrative judgment or point of view, and truth will be served. As a result, libraries are filling up with inaccessible accuracy, exhaustively researched big books on tiny topics. But facts do not speak for themselves; they are not even facts until someone formulates them. History is always slanted...
Later, the narrator is enticed home by a second woman he meets at a party, who turns out to be the driver's roommate; they tease and seduce him, then hint at a lesbian menage, until he walks home alone. Virtually the same plotline follows the opening of "Pool Lights," which begins this...