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Sabbag was even unluckier than Ollestad, if that's possible. In 1979 - four months after Ollestad's crash - Sabbag was on an Air New England flight that went down in a trackless forest just short of the airport on Cape Cod. There was no warning. "I breathed in," he remembers, "and when I breathed out I was pulling six Gs." His back and pelvis snapped on impact. He survived - along with the co-pilot and the other seven passengers, though not the pilot - and even learned to walk again. But he never escaped a sense that his life had been...
...circle of New York City's entrenched publishing culture. Old Publishing is stately, quality-controlled and relatively expensive. New Publishing is cheap, promiscuous and unconstrained by paper, money or institutional taste. If Old Publishing is, say, a tidy, well-maintained orchard, New Publishing is a riotous jungle: vast and trackless and chaotic, full of exquisite orchids and undiscovered treasures and a hell of a lot of noxious weeds. (See the top 10 non-fiction books...
...harder, longer and more expensive than the path offered to those immigrants who come here legally." The Senator also went to unusual lengths to sympathetically portray the yearning for a better life among immigrants. In emotional terms he described the deaths suffered by those attempting to cross "the trackless deserts of Arizona, people who broke our laws, not to harm us, but to possess for themselves the ideals and opportunities cherished here...
...Type R, a special, souped-up model with a very powerful engine. I've always loved fast cars, this one more than most of them. I even wrote it into Hav. It's in the scene in the tunnel [once the romantic principal route to Hav, but now sadly trackless and unused]. Oops, Elizabeth has just handed me a note. Shall I read it to you? It says, 'I'm going out to buy some superglue.' O.K. Well, now what were we talking about?" Yes, that's the same Elizabeth who married James Morris in 1949 and had five children...
...about the mystery genre:it has an expressive power beyond the uses to which it is generally put. Solving mysteries has an existential meaning for Holmes. To him, it's the "essential business of human beings--the discovery of sense and causality amid the false leads, the noise, the trackless brambles of life...