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...protagonist's visions offer glimpses of beautiful but ultimately unreal scenes. In "Emergency," angels appear to the hero in a meadow, "their huge faces streaked with pity." What he really sees is a drive-in movie screen. In "Work" two men strip an abandoned house for scrap wire; afterwards they go to the local bar, where the barmaid "poured doubles like an angel, right up to the lip of a cocktail glass, no measuring." This "angel" bartends in a grungy bar, but to the sobbing protagonist she is nurse and mother...
Singh, who was in BayBank when the shooting began, said she was so terrified by the experience that it seemed unreal...
...Darger's rented apartment, after his death, turned out to be crammed with the output of a lifetime's obsession with innocence and violence, including a 15,000-page illustrated saga titled The Story of the Vivian Girls in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, a sort of madman's Iliad of endless carnage between adults and moppets. No "mainstream" artist has so far based anything in Darger, which is just as well; in today's America, he would be arraigned for child abuse faster than you could say Lewis Carroll...
Such coincidence of bad fortune seems unreal, but it is always a risk of living. My grandfather could hardly have lived a fuller life. In my family's moment of intense grief, that was our comfort. He had his triumphs and endured his tragedies, including the suicide of a son, but he always continued to live...
...record for a woman in any sport. Thompson's awe at that feat is tinged with healthy skepticism and a yen for battle. "To take over from the East Germans would be the ultimate revenge," she says. "To do, without drugs, what they did with drugs would be an unreal accomplishment...