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...rarely appeared before 3 o'clock in the afternoon. They fished from a launch in Lake Huron, in the clear blue icy waters around Birch Island in Canada's famed Manitoulin district. First trip out the Old Fisherman took five smallmouth black bass, one medium-sized musky. His tackle: a light trout rod, a pearl spoon...
...medium foggy morning, somewhere in the Pacific, PC-487 was dutifully sheep-dogging along on the outskirts of a convoy. Her sound detectors picked up a strange craft and she headed for that spot...
Delights of the Poet is a medium-size canvas representing the haunting mem ory of an Italian town square. The picture seems deserted of humanity, a stage set standing in uneasy expectation of some unsettling occurrence. One white, far-off figure accentuates the loneliness...
...less than five minutes, Fanny Rouge had located and directed the destruction, with eleven shells of a target that would have demanded a flight of medium bombers plus more than an hour of communications, preparations and operations...
...wants to know about the human heart must be caught by surprise, by what he calls the 'relaxed will,' and if not everything can be caught in this way, what is so caught cannot be caught in any other way. Rigor will not do. Forster teases his medium and plays with his genre. He scorns the fetish of 'adequate motivation,' delights in surprise and melodrama and has a kind of addiction to sudden death." He has, says Trilling, "a whim of iron." And "to accept Forster we have to know that . . . improbability is the guide...