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...answers come erratically, as a scrap of conversation here or a deathbed confession there, and Deane's irregular structure mirrors the gradual unfurling of the family secrets. A series of brief vignettes spanning more than twenty years, unevenly spaced and heavily concentrated in the days of the narrator's extreme youth, reveals information as the narrator learns it, Deane writes with all the immediacy and intrusive intimacy of a diarist, and even the wildest, most implausible developments in the tale seem like mere fact when conveyed in his narrator's steady voice...
...also attach themselves to other warm-blooded creatures, including people. Typically, within a month of a bite, a large, bull's-eye rash shows up at the site, accompanied by chills, fever, headache and painful joints. Untreated, the infection may eventually lead to severe arthritis, facial palsy and irregular heartbeat. Deaths, however, are rare...
...found lying on the bathroom floor, dead of "cardiac arrythmia"--a severely irregular heartbeat--brought about by "undetermined causes." Doctors said there was "no evidence of any illegal drug use" although a new book co-authored by three former Presley bodyguards maintains that "E" consumed uppers, downers and a variety of narcotic cough medicines, all obtained by prescription. He also was wrestling halfheartedly with a fearful weight problem and was suffering from a variety of other ailments like hypertension, eye trouble and a twisted colon...
What shall Cantabrigians do? Who or what shall we "blame" for the unseasonably warm weather we have enjoyed this winter? There has barely been any snow in and around Harvard this winter, and days with temperatures of 45 or 50 degrees have not been irregular...
What shall Cantabrigians do? Who or what shall we "blame" for the unseasonably warm weather we have enjoyed this winter? There has barely been any snow in and around Harvard this winter, and days with temperatures of 45 or 50 degrees have not been irregular...