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...horses' heads or garrotings, but Trujillo's thugs have their ways: "Between sessions in the electric chair, they dragged him, naked, to a damp cell...To keep him from sleeping they taped his lids to his eyebrows..." You would not want to push the comparison much further, except to say that both authors have a knack for turning Darwin into harrowing fiction...
...That’s when the movie starts to get a feel. We listened to Radiohead and “Kid A” constantly, especially here in New York. And then the band Sigur Ros, from Iceland. Sigur Ros had never given their music to a movie, except I think a small movie in Iceland, and they let us use their music. That really influenced the movie. We couldn’t find the right piece of music to end the movie with, and I went to see Sigur Ros in LA. They played a song called the Nothing...
...fatherly life with Jutta, his identity as an artist and eventually a father with Veronika, and his role as an authority figure with Helga, who treats him with a child-like dependency. Thomas’ life becomes highly complex, and he keeps up the charade for no explicit reason, except that he is simply too weak to knock off a couple corners of his triangle. This is most certainly the crux of the story’s charm. Schlink takes incredible joy in keeping Thomas’ motivations unclear. Though this makes “Sugar Peas?...
Editing the Mag was a lot like life at Harvard. I simultaneously felt thrilled and exhilirated, exhausted and anxious, self-important and always in way over my head. It was probably good training for life post-Harvard which is more of the same, except the self-importance fades quickly as you leave Cambridge behind (and thank God for that). One final note to Pat Sorrento: you were right about one thing, work is work and there’s nothing better than getting home early and going to sleep...
...David Hasselhoff at the Kong. Except he was short. And Asian...