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...such ventures take a lot of advance planning. "I can't go this week," Hultin told him. "But I can go next week." Taubenberger got really quiet. "I don't know what was going through his mind," Hultin says, chuckling. "He probably thought I was some kind of a nut...
...driven by a photographer--certainly not by one of the 10 men now under investigation--nor do they seriously suspect that the driver was involved in a murder plot. But one of the reasons investigating magistrate Herve Stephan is so insistent on finding the driver, and completing a nut-by-bolt examination of the wrecked Mercedes, is to eliminate any possible suspicion of a conspiracy. Thus the search for the Uno continues...
That power is visible on nearly every page of Paradise. Morrison's prose remains the marvel that it was in her earlier novels, a melange of high literary rhetoric and plain talk. She can turn pecan shelling into poetry: "the tick of nut meat tossed in the bowl, cooking utensils in eternal adjustment, insect whisper, the argue of long grass, the faraway cough of cornstalks." She captures the stark geography surrounding Ruby: "This land is flat as a hoof, open as a baby's mouth." And she builds Ruby practically brick by brick: its streets (named after the four Gospels...
...Squirrel Nut Zippers is a band we've played with some and liked a lot. Meeting Morphine was cool, they're from around here. There are tons, all of us would love to open for Radiohead, but we're not sure...
...medieval times, a series of customs developed around "Hallow E'en" (Hallow Evening), many deriving at least in part from the holiday's earlier pagan incarnation. It became traditional to eat nuts and apples; the nuts were especially important because young girls were encouraged to watch them as they roasted, interpreting their behavior as an omen of the faithfulness or inconstancy of their beloveds--if the nut cracked or jumped, one was thought to be in trouble. The relationship between this custom and the Celtic belief in the power of New Year prophesies seems clear enough. Other traditions of note...