They might be called the Angel Falls, but they are the very devil to get to.
"That last winter was the very devil," he says, shaking his head in wonder, his hybrid accent – part American, part Australian, part London-English and now part Leitrim-Irish – a thing of baffling cadences.
Nothing will be spared; therefore let nothing be wasted, not even the horror of a chair where you might sit and write or think: "that one there, / yes, that one with its open arms / and its invitation to sit, / its somnolence, its stab at dignity / its emptiness, was the very devil".
The air conditioning at the Soho office of his film production company has been playing the very devil with Ken Loach's arthritis, but that's not what's causing him pain.
There is much terza rima, the very devil of a form: as one door opens, another closes, and I'd suggest interlocking tercets with three rhymes is a bigger ask than sonneteering.
Dante wrote in terza rima, a rhyme scheme that is hard enough in Italian but the very devil – sorry – in English, and translators have to decide whether to give up on it altogether.
Bradlee is the very model of the devil-may-care Wasp — his entertaining new memoir, "A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures" (Simon & Schuster; $27.50), gives the lie to Socrates' idea that the unexamined life is not worth living — but it was clear then, in the summer of 1981, that he had seen a life's work nearly destroyed by a rookie reporter he had hardly known.
"A theocratic state", she wrote in 1920, the year the ayatollahs revolted against the British, "is the very devil .The Yankees bowing to the beardsSo far the Americans have been careful to respect Shia tradition, hailing Mr Sistani as a force for good, not of obscurantism.
Email is the absolute devil.
"So Iachimo is a very positive devil, a holy devil -- we need that in life," the director said, laughing.
