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But Verlaine's employer is actually a powerful Nephilim (Trussoni uses this word as both singular and plural, which I'm not sure I buy) named Percival, who suffers from a disease that has rotted his once glorious wings into gross little stumps. He's searching for a divine lyre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angelology: Wings of Desire | 3/15/2010 | See Source »

Sir Edmund Percival Hillary died Jan. 11 at the age of 88, almost 55 years after the ascent that made him and Tenzing two of the heroes of the 20th century. For one who had reached such heights, he was a strange mix of confidence and modesty, bravado and reticence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiet Conqueror | 1/18/2008 | See Source »

Last Friday, the world was rocked by one of the most stunning authorial announcements in history, when Harry Potter penmother J.K. Rowling casually revealed that Albus (Percival Wulfric Brian) Dumbledore, the greatest wizard of our time and a hero of the first order, is a homosexual.

Author: By Michael Segal | Title: Magic’s Greatest Secrets | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

For postmodern French self-reference, try Grégoire Bouillier's portrait of a man trying to forget a lost love; it actually mentions the California writer whose job it is to finish the story. "Neither the Pope nor Percival Everett, no, no one will die in your place," a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surrealist Pen Pals | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

Meanwhile she keeps half a dozen plots simmering on the back burners. It's book 7, so it's time for the remaining couples to pair off. Tonks and Lupin get married, as do Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour. Harry's romance with Ginny is still smoldering, and if their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harry Potter's Last Adventure | 7/21/2007 | See Source »

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