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...meaning, only an animal warmth, at once grotesque and touching. Donleavy seems to be saying that this warmth is the only thing about which we can be certain. "To make the stars bark" is his sole justification for the antics at Charnel Castle. Molecules of cooling human scent spreading thinner and thinner through the heavens according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics? It would seem so-in Donleavy's world at least, where man is the ultimate agent of disorder...
...crust itself is probably relatively thin. But during differentiation, the tug of terrestrial gravity would probably have pulled more dense material to the side of the moon facing the earth. As a result the crust there would have been slightly squeezed and become thinner than that on the far side. Indeed, such an uneven distribution of crust was offered by University of Chicago Mineralogist Joseph Smith to explain the paucity of maria on the far side. These great lunar seas are believed to be vast upwellings of lava, perhaps from volcanic eruptions set off by the moon's collision...
Stout is out, and so are other masculine drinks like ale and porter. Even beer "has a much thinner taste," according to Winick. The tastelessness of convenience foods like instant coffee "helps reinforce our acceptance of the neuter" in the rest of our culture. In ballet, adults adore the unisexuality of Nureyev; in books, children prefer easy-to-read real-life adventures to fairy tales with their "idealized, romantic rolemodels of the masculine and feminine...
...have been Secretary of State was, for him, an honor without profit. Almost none of the bountiful lecturer's fees and foundation posts that have rewarded other public servants descended on him. His checkbook was almost depleted when he left the State Department, and it is probably thinner now. When a Rockefeller Foundation grant he received last year ran out, Rusk accepted a new job as professor of international law at the University of Georgia...
...Administration, under pressure from Consumer Advocates Ralph Nader and John Banzhaf III, is considering a ruling that would require the lines to separate smokers and nonsmokers. Not only does cigarette smoke befoul cabin air, which is pressurized at the equivalent of 2,500 ft.-3,500 ft. and is thinner than air at ground level, but tobacco tars have been known to gum up sensitive gyros on aircraft instrument panels...