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...It’s one of those hotels that’s almost legendary on America’s West Coast and inexplicably all but unknown overseas. theharborhouseinn.com, from $550 Carmel’s new hotel belles It’s always been one of the...
...“We need to oust all of these serpents who are hunting down our honest boy like an injured sparrow, so that he can fly like an eagle.”...
...Unknown events pull the reader back to the gates of Ravensbrück, a place that Magda’s son denies his imagination the right to describe....
...“Hard to think so much human endeavour should become an apartment block for sparrows,” he said....
...Of course it is every child’s über-fantasy: the cosy nook under the tree in a secret corner of a secret forest where miniature people live, wearing dandelions for hats and catching lifts on the backs of sparrows...
...We fear the unknown more than the known; ignorance is a great magnifier of fear. Local people here, I’ve found out from meetings, fear violent crime and have reason to do so....
...Thompson meets Jack Sparrow meets Kermit the Frog – and the digital detailing, especially on Rango, (bulging frazzled eyes, fine-tuned twitches and gulps), is a joy....
...Each of these males clasps a downward-pointed sword, which to the fanciful, or the cynical, might suggest he is trying to stab himself in the feet: a not unknown Hollywood habit in testing times....
...The men realise that all they have left to shore themselves up is, ironically, perhaps the most British trait of all: in the face of the unknown, they exercise restraint....
...Are you prepared for the fall of the sparrow? I do hope so. Anything else would be foolish. Happy new year. *Texere Publishing, 2001 martin.wolf@ft.com...
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