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...Whale White. Later, in paintings like Blue Ball series-Untitled, 1961, the diaphanous mists and blots of color were abolished in favor of a snowy white field on which dense blue circular shapes were deployed; later still, the series that included Untitled, 1970, pushed the activity of color from the center of the canvas altogether, leaving the white void itself as the subject, speckled and edged with exquisitely laced drifts of color that Francis blurred, wet into wet, in imitation of Japanese sumi ink painting...
Kepesh's condition is not covered by Blue Cross. For that matter, he is uninsurable by any of society's institutions. His metamorphosis cannot even be explained scientifically. As a vestigial literary intellectual, Kepesh himself can only offer reasons that are as powerless as spitballs against the whale of his new reality. He is only sure of two things: "I am really quite as alone as anyone could ever wish to be," and "Human I insist I am, but not that human...
...Japanese say their whaling is essential. Whale meat accounts for 10% of Japan's protein diet. The blood and entrails are processed into pet food or fertilizer. The skin and bones end up as oil. Even the football-size testicles of sperm whales are boiled, sliced and served as a delicacy...
...response to letters questioning whether such attractions as a planned time-tunnel trip through the holy city of Jerusalem and a mechanical Jonah's whale that swallows visitors are sacrilegious, the promoters are quick to explain that they have enlisted the assistance of several churches to ensure interdenominational felicity. They are also taking out options to buy the land surrounding the park to prevent the appearance of anything so desecrating as "cheap souvenir joints." The expensive souvenir joints will apparently be inside Holyland, presumably in the tem ple with the money-changers...
...City and Pow Wow, two radical Swedish organizations, are conducting tours through the run-down parts of Stockholm. The tour vehicle: an old bus that runs on a form of "recycled" energy, methane gas emanating from horse manure. There are endless parades, one of which featured a large plastic whale to represent that overhunted species. Traffic barely creeps around the main conference halls in the old and the new Parliament buildings. Specially painted bicycles offer a quicker and more environmentally respectable way of getting about, and even Maurice Strong, the conference's secretary-general, took...