Word: journey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heard from. Emerging from his gloomy exile, he has a changed perspective and quite a story to tell about his years cloistered away. And he is packing a few surprises, for The Fragile is not just more of the same old musical Sturm und Drang. "The Fragile is a journey out from a place of desperation," says Reznor. "There are threads of optimism...
...believe it or not, until last year upperclass students had to journey all the way back to the Houses for a free lunch. Now Quadlings and Yardlings alike can grab a bagged lunch from Fly-By in Loker Commons...
...journey back to harbor increasingly became difficult. The rope that towed the Escort was constantly strained and broke three times over 15 miles, slowing down the return trip...
...make matters worse, it took the Coast Guard nearly an hour once they arrived to throw over a line to the Escort. And once the line was received at around 3 a.m., the long journey back to harbor still lay ahead...
Harry's shuttling between two worlds is also reminiscent of Lewis Carroll's Alice, L. Frank Baum's Dorothy in her journey to Oz, and the time-traveling earth children who keep reappearing in C. S. Lewis' seven-volume The Chronicles of Narnia. Like them, Harry is young enough both to adapt to altered realities and to observe them with a minimum of preconceptions. Also, the sorcerer's stone in the first Harry Potter book bears an obvious kinship with the all-powerful ring pursued in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy...