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...would hike up an active volcano during a hurricane and skinny-dip in a hot, sulfurous pond. We would marvel at spouting geysers and boiling mudholes in psychedelic hues. We would share vodka and salmon caviar with melancholy park rangers in ramshackle huts. And we would be seduced by the mystery of Kamchatka, a land of fire and ice that remains one of the wildest places on earth...
...also resembles Updike. Sometimes so does McCoy. Is it his own face that Updike is asking us to seek? Maybe McCoy is his wished-for self, diving into the volcano of instinct. But it's Hope who has his gift for rustling language. When she remembers the way her German-born art instructor spoke a "ponderous slow English, like concrete dripping in clumps inside a turning mixer," what you recall is that reading Updike has always provided the pleasures you hoped were in store when you went to the trouble of learning to read...
Just minutes after the competition began, Morange attempted to open one of his bottles of his special “Secession Cider.” What happened next was a literal volcano of cider, a spewing fountain of malternative liquid that sent nearby contestants fleeing. “I only carbonated it last night,” he says to Sullivan. “Well, that’s your problem,” he responds. “Try another one,” Heller says. “That was probably just a bad bottle...
...Santorini man - Santorini, the once vibrant island community in the Aegean north of Crete, where many centuries ago a mammoth volcano did, without question, destroy an advance civilization. That's certainly what Plato had in mind when he lectured on Atlantis. Or, at least, that's what I came to conclude...
Barry’s evolution spurs a change in our perceptions of Sandler as well. In Punch-Drunk Love’s first half, Barry holds our interest far more as a temperamental volcano than as a patient, low-key professional; it’s hilarious to watch him suddenly go on a window-breaking rampage, or dissolve into quiet sobs without warning in mid-conversation, or silently walk into a bathroom and rip it to shreds with his bare hands. But as he falls for Lena, Barry’s energy grows to serve a normal, workable emotion...