Word: infernos
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...poet of dreams deferred. His follow up novel, The Crazed, is stylistically similar, but this time Jin has made his politics more explicit. Set in the heartbreaking spring of 1989, The Crazed exposes a struggle to awake from a nightmare of personal and social oppression?before the inferno of Tiananmen...
...like him as "just a piece of meat on a cutting board", and the next admitting to a shameful desire to be an official, to be the knife that cuts. He sings fragments of revolutionary songs in praise of Chairman Mao, then discourses on a passage from Dante's Inferno as if it were his own. In hallucinatory snatches, Yang releases secrets from his past: the agony of watching his books burn during the Cultural Revolution; a buried infidelity; an unexpected love...
...closer to June 4, it becomes clear, almost too clear, that the pent-up anguish of Yang, his student and all of seething China will break open in Beijing, "the sick heart of this country." Jin's description of the massacre is vivid, short and sorrowful, suffused with the Inferno-like imagery he evokes throughout the novel. Frenzy overtakes first the soldiers, "unstoppable like a crazed dragon," and then their victims, consumed by grief, cursing the government even as they fall. It's at Tiananmen that Jin's scrupulous realism, which can prove a drag, pays off with bitter authenticity...
...volume broadcasts of Bach's organ music and Mozart's doom-laden opera Don Giovanni to clear Copenhagen's main station of drunks and junkies. If things get really bad, they can always play The Ketchup Song.There was no al-Qaeda dirty bomb, no chemical plant disaster, no towering inferno. None of the worst-case scenarios imagined by tabloid journalists and military planners ahead of the U.K.'s first fire-services strike in 25 years came to pass. But as the 48-hour shutdown ended, there was no collective sigh of relief either. With the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) planning...
Some call it "The Monster." One of the worst blazes recorded in the American West, the fire in eastern Arizona has consumed nearly half a million acres. All but 5,000 of 30,000 residents forced to flee the inferno were allowed to return after firefighters secured the area around the commercial hub of Show Low. But for more than 400 households, home was a charred ruin. The fire continued licking westward, devouring a canyon below the town of Forest Lakes...