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FlyBy has never liked ladybugs. Those sickening little spots. Those creepy little legs. Oh, sure, some people think they’re cute. And we’ll concede that their penchant for munching on aphids is a useful one. But can you imagine a huge mass of ladybugs swarming all over your windows, trying to burrow in through the cracks as you stare in horror...
...fact, the characters themselves are existential questions. Each occupies himself with an interminable quest: Wacholder wants to destroy his doppelganger figure Würz; but Aslan wants to write literary masterpieces, copies others instead; Leo never leaves his bed and only thinks about existence. Their stories—if there are any—unfold through their pathetic attempts to reach the unreachable. Wacholder, for example, tries to eliminate Würz, who might as well be Wacholder himself, by writing him half threatening and half incomprehensible letters; by inventing imaginary, toxic juice; or by simply thinking that...
...that expand themselves throughout the breadth of reading. Instead of delivering on this front, Jakov Lind limited the artistic potential of the novel by consciously designating a purpose to it. “Ergo,” unfortunately, is like a long, repetitive commentary on postwar terror that can never stand alone without its historical context...
...We’ve never won the Straus Cup, so we were particularly delighted to have a winning sports team,” Quincy House Master Lee Gehrke said...
...Save You From,” a gorgeous, transcendental violin solo strikes up around the three-minute mark. Every song on “Declaration,” on the other hand, pleases in almost exactly the same register from beginning to end. Kings of Convenience has never aspired to the shimmering textural distortions or swirling build-up of similarly laid-back bands like Grizzly Bear; but here, the crystalline simplicity of their music is symmetric to a fault...