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Impassive as ever, Hirohito prefers jellyfish to politics...
...with emotional immediacy, much as Ray Bradbury's haunting tales once brought a Midwest folksiness to the future. The Lathe of Heaven (1971) imagines the year 2002 and a hero whose dreams become reality. Along with the fantasies, Le Guin textures her tales with poetic leaps. When a jellyfish is flung on the beach, she writes, "What will the creature made all of seadrift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind do, each morning, waking?" Like many contemporary women authors, Le Guin, married with three grown children, is not an amateur who regards her craft...
Descending to depths of 8,500 ft., the Alvin has found not only more creatures of the Galápagos variety, such as giant worms, but other oddities: several species of snails, worms, clams and a jellyfish. Some are so novel that they defy the taxonomic abilities of the biologists aboard the expedition's mother ship, Melville, operated by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Among these unknown wonders: white eellike fish that hover around the scorching vents. For lack of a better name, the scientists have labeled them "21-degree-north vent fish" (after the latitude of the site...
...Women and Day for Night. He treated even his most repellent characters with extraordinary affection. When Trauffaut took a role in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters, it was, fittingly enough, that of the starry-eyed scientist who looked to the sky with an unbridled, childlike innocence. These hyper-intelligent jellyfish aliens glided out of the Mother Ship, and there was the benevolent Truffaut, signalling good will and smiling his beatific smile. Jean Luc Godard sneered and said the man wasn't even a director. Truffaut, the gallant one, smiled demurely and said how much he liked Mr. Godard...
...Jellyfish...