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...wonder, then, that Macon finds relief in the "bizarre" Muriel Pritcherd and her slightly-sordid transient air. Macon is half-fascinated and half-repulsed by Muriel's comic pretensions of gentility. She shows up at Rose's wedding, the only woman wearing, Macon notices, spiked heels with ankle straps. She isn't even really pretty, her youthfulness appearing more immature than sexy. Upon his first sight of her at the Meow Bow vet clinic, Macon notes the knobby collarbones "promising unluxurious flesh...
...Valenzuelas entered illegally from Mexico, chasing their American dream through a hole in the border fence near Tijuana on a moonless autumn night almost ten years ago. In contrast to the popular image of transient workers cowering in fear of deportation, they are among a burgeoning number of illegal families who have sunk deep roots in hospitable American soil. They are granted nudge-and-a-wink acceptance by employers as well as government agencies...
...days. The loudspeaker system that once called residents to the phone was dismantled. Within a week, Steve Coe had been fired, with the explanation that he wasn't "a ball buster." ("In all those years, he was only late twice," said Bobbi Pluhar, with tears in her eyes.) Then transient mooring rates were nearly tripled. The permanent residents were never told what to expect, but they began to fear the worst...
...tragedy, both are evoked and invoked with consummate artistry clarity and immediacy: "And as I see these things in the light of lamp, all perishable and transient, how bound up I know I am to all that is human endeavor, to all that past and to all that shall be, to all that shall be lost and leave no trace," Long before this penultimate sentence, the vision is clear, through this prose that is not only a lens but a prism...
Marsden's system, however, is most useful in handling transient phenomena-short-lived astronomical happenings...