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...through the security check. They also want to put unsightly security equipment under one roof and conceal it as much as possible. The only practical alternative to the planned new gatehouse was to enclose the portico or porte-cochere. But that seemed aesthetically incompatible with the work of James Hoban, the original White House architect, and McKim, Mead and White, the renovators of the historic building...
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban. Several millenniums after nuclear catastrophe, a group of survivors huddles near "Cambry" (Canterbury) and tries to reinvent the English language and rediscover gunpowder...
Beyond its wit, the language of Riddley Walker haunts and challenges in a way that English cannot. Where English is insufficient, Hoban simply invents penetrating new words. The gnawing sensation of terror inside the stomach is the "fearbelly"; both the sight and sound of an angry dog are expressed by "grooling and smarling...
...even where he does not specifically create new vocabulary, Hoban creates wild new tones and moods. When has twilight ever been described like this...
...This is Hoban's greatest accomplishment--that the mystical tale of a 12-year-old boy, told in an unknown language, resonates with an urgent, timeless message: in Riddley's words "the onlyes power is no power." Perhaps Hoban's gift as a children's writer gives Riddley Walker this sense of universality; perhaps you have to know how to speak to children in order to speak to their parents...