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...suddenly, we learn that the recipient of all of our earnest faith and affection has been a frou-frou all along! Especially for Americans, this comes as utter shock. Dumbledore has suddenly become the best-known gay icon… ever. Never mind Da Vinci, Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, Freddy Mercury??these eccentrics and geniuses we can ignore. But Dumbledore will change our image of homosexuality forever...
According to Hammitt, the EPA’s report failed to consider the effects of reduced mercury emissions on saltwater fish, and also ignored recent findings on mercury??s damaging effects on the human cardiovascular system...
...shortlist for the Mercury Prize, Britain’s premier music award, highlights these divergent tastes. The Mercury??s idea of nodding to pop sensibility is to shortlist Coldplay whenever they release an album, but never actually award them anything—a trick they’ve been playing on Blur for years. There are always a couple of jazz or classical albums nominated just to prove how classy the award really is, though they also never actually win: high-brow classiness that stops just short of alienating its audience is the object...
Subplots involving Parnell Grimes, the director of Mercury??s funeral home, also compromise the harmony of the tale. The necrophiliac undertaker and his wife, who dies a little death for him at orgasm, may serve as a counterpoint to Finus and Birdie’s unfulfilled sexualities—even the dead can copulate, but they can’t. Still, the new characters feel sensationally extraneous...
While they’re not having sex, the dead play an important role in the novel. Watson says, “the ‘Heaven of Mercury?? [is] everywhere. In the characters’ minds, and their memories, in the presence of the dead in their waking and dreaming lives, and in their communion with spirits, real or imagined.” Finus writes obituaries about his friends and acquaintances for the Mercury newspaper, which he edits and owns. The dead are constantly being summed up into bulleted recollections and pithy paragraphs. Ghostly spirits appear...