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Each chapter starts at the moment of "his," the general's, death, and spirals back in time. Every episode, like a link in a chain, takes hold of the previous one, circles out on its own, and returns to intersect its point of origin, having established a new anchor in space onto which the next can attach itself. The careful structure of Marquez' surrealistic time has the same natural quality and arresting impact of those first ten words...
Panizza has populated his supernatural world with a pretty tawdry lot, but you couldn't call this a presumptuous thing to do. His Biblical figures are modeled after the real world, so that his statements about the nature of Evil will intersect with our own experience. What we can come closest to understanding is human motivation. Faced with something more, different or better, we're still going to reduce it to our own common denominator...
Soon the lines begin to intersect and merge until they form broad and turgid rivers of money and authority, sometimes augmented and rechanneled by state agencies. In a nearly futile attempt to keep the lines distinguishable on the chart, they are rendered in eight varieties-including dots, diagonals, dashes, and dashes and dots. At the bottom, where the confusion is such that arrows are necessary to direct traffic, await the beneficiaries of the programs voted by Congress. They are divided into a mind-boggling 59 categories: Residents of Rat Infested Areas of Selected Cities, Residents of Critical Health Manpower Shortage...
...padded helmet encases my head, and four thick safety belts intersect in a bulbous metal codpiece. As my two-ton Chevy Silverado truck edges toward the starting line, all I can feel is the plastic barf bag stuffed in the pocket of my flame-resistant jumpsuit. Behind the wheel sits Walker Evans, 36, a general contractor from Riverside, Calif, who has won 14 of his past 17 off-road races. As the green flag rises, the final spectator salute of uplifted cups of Coors reminds me of a well-wisher's warning: "Walker won't stop...
...stop exaggerating their pluralism. Everyone belongs to overlapping subcommunities, and these share many common concerns for the good. What might be called "conditional absolutes" often appear as bases for deep agreements in the midst of pluralism. They serve as working hypotheses for the common moral life, assumptions that intersect our tribes, churches and individual lives...