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Omnibuster. In London, Ernest Meadow leaped into the driver's seat of an idling bus, caromed off through traffic, ignoring passengers' protests", later explained: he was in a hurry to get to Victoria Station...
...Great Divorce, Author Lewis, who teaches medieval literature at Oxford, takes himself and a load of jostling, quarreling passengers from a twilit, drizzly city of endless streets to a fresh meadow at the foot of a cloudy mountain range. "The last thing I wish is to arouse factual curiosity about the details of the after-world," Lewis warns. But the grey city, he realizes, was Hell; he and his bus-mates are spirits on an excursion. Damnation is not final; they may stay in Heaven if they choose...
Olsen, with his long stride, managed to shake off everyone but Dartmouth's McLane. The two raced neck & neck through the New Hampshire woodland, along a hillcrest, over rolling meadow. Then Olsen called on his last reserves, forged ahead, won by 14 seconds. But McGill still trailed Dartmouth by two points. All depended on the last event-the jump...
...rode near and far, high and low, along bypaths and by-ways- for speedily a tale is spun, but with less speed a deed is done- until he came to a wide, open field, a green meadow. And there in the field stood a pillar, and on the pillar these words were written : 'Whosoever goes from this pillar on the road straight before him will be cold and hungry. Whosoever goes to the right side will be safe and sound, but his horse will be killed.'" What happened when Prince Ivan turned to the right, his adventures with...
From western Czechoslovakia, where the Elbe river bursts through the Sudeten mountains into the flat meadow lands bordering Germany, came a different story...