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...shadowless reaches of the Spanish Sahara, some 40 miles from the Atlantic Coast, the dusty oasis of Bu-Craa swelters in the middle of a moonscape of endless dunes and burned-out scrub. It is an ancient cross roads for camel caravans and fierce des ert nomads in their swirling burnooses. For years, Spanish Foreign Legionnaires in their whitewashed forts knew Bu-Craa as a lonely corner of the end of the world...
...also a shadowless personality, inept in his love life. Thus, to compensate for his own inadequacies, he exaggerates Dean's qualities almost to the point of inventing a new character; he fears his creation as he must fear "all men who are successful in love...
...woman's hand slides into view across a sheet. A man's hand appears and clasps its wrist. Then his fingers languidly caress a knee, a shoulder, an elbow, a torso. And all in the clear, shadowless light of an operating room. At last the fragments of anatomy grow heads: Charlotte and Robert. They are lovers, and as they get dressed, they communicate in cool, laconic monotones, like intergalactic messages across the light years...
Gone are all the ancient appurtenances of the Man's World-the big leather chairs, the massive standing lamps, the gloomy high ceilings and rich carpets. Instead, the rooms are low-ceilinged (more floors) and cheerily antiseptic, with light furniture and artificial plants, bathed in the flat, shadowless lighting of fluorescent panels and inset ceiling lamps. From the complex air-processing plant in the clean sub-basement to the twin-bedded rooms and suites above, the club is planned, as the Princeton Alumni Weekly says, "to please the girls...
...Shadowless World. At her best. Grandma Moses was no ordinary primitive. She had in her mind a shadowless world of dancing images, and these she put down on Masonite, placed flat upon her kitchen table, with a freshness of vision that seemed eternally young. She worked too rapidly, often too carelessly, for excellence; but this very spontaneity was part of her appeal...