Then I decided that my debate had better vanish too.
("So," a reporter heard someone asking at 2666's East Village launch, "is Bolaño here?") Unquestionably, too, the writer's colourful life story has helped to drive coverage of his books in the US, where he has been depicted, not without reason, as something even better than a vanished writer: a vanished writer who eventually reappeared in triumph.
We rebuild in our memories, with our hands, with whatever we can gather the better and the vanished world we once glimpsed from the roof.
This label was all that was needed for her killers to believe -- because they were methodically taught to believe -- that the world would be better if she vanished into smoke.
Like the Aral Sea, a better-known vanishing salt lake in Central Asia, Lake Urmia is exposing a salt desert that generates noxious dust, threatening crops and people.
Within a year or so, most of those loans will have vanished, for better or worse for the homeowners and for the neighborhoods those homes are in.
I don't think I've ever met a depressed person who wanted to get out of bed in the morning — who didn't experience the appearance of day as a call to burrow further under the covers, the better to embrace the vanished night.
None of this means the bigger-is-better ethos has exactly vanished.
My knees pretty much got better," and his sleep apnea vanished.
Or better still, if we just vanished into thin air or spontaneously combusted or, I don't know, melted?
