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When their grandmother dies, care of the castaway daughters eventually falls to their Aunt Sylvie, who comes back to Fingerbone from whereabouts and husband unknown. She is a gentle, oddly weatherless woman who poses no threat in the way of harshness or undue discipline. The girls like her, and worry: "Lucille and I still doubted that Sylvie would stay. She resembled our mother, and besides that, she seldom removed her coat, and every story she told had to do with a train or a bus station." The three settle into a land of amiable anarchy. They eat what and when...
...collective memories. The great fear is that of being stranded in a void, of being so alone that one's very existence is in doubt. As Miss Frame expresses it in the poetry that threads the novel: "It is the company of weather I crave in this weatherless room/the thermometer reads me only." In the Waipori of the future, the problem of establishing existence would be even more terrifying. If a plastic tree topples into the vinyl grass, does it make a sound if the forest is not electronically bugged...
...search for life's meaning also runs through End of the Road. "In a sense, I am Jacob Horner," the book's narrator begins, with typical uncertainty. Then he conducts a tour along the "weatherless" days of his life. Hornet suffers low-pressure areas during which he ceases to function. Hypnotized by the multitude of life's choices, he can make no choice at all. The novel is partly autobiographical. It is laid in Maryland, where Earth grew up; Horner teaches English at Wicomico State Teachers College, while Earth teaches English at the Buffalo campus...
...stratosphere varies in height from about eleven miles at the Equator to four or less at the Poles. One of its chief features is that there is practically no vertical temperature gradient. By describing it as "a calm and weatherless region," TIME meant that it lies above the turbulence, heavy clouds and precipitation which characterize the troposphere or surface layer of the atmosphere...
...balloons went up 12 miles. In Washington it was observed that a storm had penetrated that far into the stratosphere-or rather, that the storm had lifted to 12 miles the lower boundary of the stratosphere, since that region is by definition a calm, "weatherless" stratum...
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