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Sitting cross-legged on pillows that they had brought from their hotel rooms, the crowd of 700 neatly dressed middle-aged and middle-class couples were mesmerized by the tall, slender, blond woman in front of them. Dressed in a starched white Oriental tunic over gray sweat pants and sneakers, J.Z. Knight, 40, sat on a makeshift stage in a sturdy armchair surrounded by a veritable garden of lavender flowers. Her voice, almost preternaturally husky, seemed to take on a gamut of accents from European to Indian as she spouted a relentless stream of imperatives about self-reliance...
...mental hospital, college students and office workers who line up at local coffee shops. A stone's throw from the court is a strip joint advertising, in neon, "Mugs and Jugs." Nearby, a shop displays garish Valentine's Day wares: a larger-than-life knight in shining armor standing tall beside a Queen of Hearts. It's a costume shop, of course. Vancouver, in these dark days, has a dearth of real-life romantic heroes...
Friday, Jan. 19. The day you were murdered. I stare at the TV, at your tall, thin body lying dead on the sidewalk of a busy street in Istanbul . You are in front of your office, the office of the Turkish-Armenian weekly you worked so hard to launch and sustain. I cannot take my eyes off the soles of your shoes. Worn out and tired, your shoes are a mute response to all those ultranationalists who accused you of being in the pay of the Armenian diaspora to disrupt the status quo in Turkey...
...characters Hall employs to keep Mrs. Shoddy's sanity at bay (most memorable of all, there's a big black bull that materializes from the fog). But as in the Robert Graves poem from which the novel takes its name ("? as when the young bird-catcher/ Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's daughter,/ So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly"), Hall's dark vision is lit by a transforming lyricism, with bravura passages that can take the breath away. This is Australian writing worth caring about...
...loathed him on principle. Let me explain: he's charismatic, confident, talented, tall, young, handsome and has lots of hair. The press release issued by his publicist describes him as "debonair with a touch of degenerate dandy." He describes his sound on his MySpace page as "Beck via Queen and Elton John and a touch of Rufus W.[ainwright]." He appears to be having fun. Did I mention the full head of hair? I'd been given an advance copy of Life in Cartoon Motion, Mika's debut album due Feb. 5, but I'd been reluctant to play...