Word: landing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surrounded by clouds of dust and many foul odors. And The Knight of Delta Pi Epsilon, also called Brooklyn, led the pack, riding up to King Joseph himself. And this bold mass of green bellowed. "Greetings, lusty cuckold. Thou hast the sorriest bunch of knights in all the ivy land. And we, the animals from Hanover who pervert the name of chivalry and take the memory of Arthur in vain, do challenge you to a tournament...
...King Joseph laughed. "Double slot left, split wing trap right. I-36, X-89 on four," Joseph said, for he spoke only a strange tongue that was not known in the land. But he was wise, or so they said...
...American vocabulary that has two different interpretations--one on paper and one in real life. The one on paper says everybody gets what they deserve; the one in real life says it depends on who you are and who you know. The two only meet in the land of make-believe. Like in this movie...
...Gabriel Garcia Marquez; as in Kafka's The Castle and Lem's Memoir's Found in a Bathtub, Abe's new novel presents a protagonist thrust into an absurd, alien environment with a mission he must accomplish. In the former, a gentlemen K., claiming to be a land surveyor, sets out to reach the castle, while Lem's memoir-writer must wander through endless corridors to escape from a vast underground military complex. In Secret Rendezvous, the labyrinth is an enormous hospital, and the unnamed protagonist's obsession is to locate his wife, who has been mysteriously carted from their...
...shopping bag lady--she is too important to live luxuriously in public--who carries RAMJAC's important documents in the toes of her purple sneakers. She is, of course, from Cambridge, Mass. At the end of the novel, Walter finds himself in a legal mess concerning RAMJAC which will land him in jail once again. Yet, like all Vonnegut heroes, he still believes, like the rest of us, "that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool...