> At 01:55 PM 7/30/2008, Doug Henwood wrote:
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>>I read the first 10 pages of that damned thing and couldn't go on. The
>>overwriting!!
>
>
> Good thing you stopped. Otherwise you risk dying fatly baffled in the sun.
>
> http://www.bookbrowse.com/excerpts/index.cfm?book_number=414
>
> Paradise Pickles & Preserves
>
> May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and
> humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in
> still, dustgreen trees. Red bananas ripen. Jackfruits burst. Dissolute
> bluebottles hum vacuously in the fruity air. Then they stun themselves
> against clear windowpanes and die, fatly baffled in the sun.
That makes me want to go get a video game just so I can read the web page that describes how to cheat at it.