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...indefatigable researcher as well as an arresting stylist, Hughes, born and raised in Australia, has brilliantly filled the gap. The Fatal Shore (the title comes from a typically doleful convict ballad) is more than factually comprehensive; it re-creates the emotions of history, allowing the reader to smell the gin and feel the pain, to experience that misery-filled world almost as intensely as those who lived...
...impossible task. A trembling man who goes by the name Carper cries, "What goddam row am I in!" as he pulls his red wool hat down until it covers his eyebrows. Carper has spent five to six years on the streets, and thinks he may be 33. The smell of putrid wine and decaying teeth poisons his breath; the fluid running from his swollen eyes streaks his dirty cheeks before disappearing into his beard. "Am I in a goddam row? Who the hell's running the rows?" he swears. An older man with a thick gray beard informs Carper...
...green plants into red ones, has been available on a limited basis in Europe since the 1970s. Oaks, palms and eucalyptus trees, as well as indoor plants like baby's breath, can be preserved for as long as eight years. After the process, the plants look, feel and even smell like they did before. Still, they neither grow nor blossom and have no need for water or light. The sleeping plants will sell for up to four times the cost of their living counterparts...
...because we have imagined each other's existence, our dreams running back and forth along a cable from age to age. Hold this paper to the light. It is a mirror, a delusion, a fact in the brief continuous mystery we share. Do you see starlight? So do we. Smell the fire? We do too. Draw close. Let us tell each other a story...
...time lawyers smell big fees in the coming legal battles. Democrats taste new power and are in an uncharacteristic season of teeth-gritting, determined self-control so that they don't blow their main chance by allowing instant hysteria to take over...