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These strung-together images go nowhere, leaving us totally unprepared for the concluding section of the novel in which Juan becomes insane and leads a revolution of the tenants' pets. Like the images, the conclusion is another object added to Arenas' string, so that by the end of the novel it is as if we hold in our hands not a cohesive story, but a stack of pages held together only by a bead of glue...
...usual finding, they probably won't be able to make any conclusions about its origin. If Horowitz and his team are especially unlucky, they'll find out that they've tracked a "mundane" object like a satellite. Their "first discovery," back in June, 1983, was an "incredibly big signal... the right profile, but not the right frequency." It took them about 30 minutes to figure out that...
...dozen cases in the last year, including two sightings of 12 to 18 inch glowing green disks near highways, a 30-foot metallic disc seen near Cape Cod in January, a silver domed disc seen in Malden in October of 1990, and two reports of a large angular object, flying at tree level...
...naked. You feel that you (yes, you) have made some ghastly mistake, sent the wrong signals, led him along. At first you try to pretend it didn't happen. You may do what I once did and keep lifting his hand off your knee as if it were some object that happened to fall there. You may even maintain the fiction of friendship for years, because anything is better than being demoted, in your own mind, to a deletable four-letter word...
Visconti 2000 was also the object of a Wall Street Journal front-page attack in April of 1990. The Journal characterized Visconti's center as part of a disguised New Age movement. These critics say the technology never developed from New Age exuberance into documented science. Rather, they charge that what began as part of the human-possibilities excitement of the 1960s has simply become an individual money-making strategy of the 1980s...