Behind me, one of the highest single-drop waterfalls in the world crashes down in a frenzy of white mist.
Wyndham had just outlined the violence and murkiness in Homes's dark satires of American life: a jailed paedophile, a girl who picks up used condoms and inseminates herself, car crashes, adultery, murder.
"I have the experience, and also the crashes in Moto2, and then arrived in MotoGP.
However hard Ramos tried – and he tried pretty hard, handballing and kicking and pushing and protesting and flying in, getting wilder with every one, a mental soundtrack of cymbal crashes accompanying each tackle – Montero stubbornly, and comically, refused to pull out the card.
It was certainly noteworthy that in his recent interview in this newspaper, Clarke complained of the "ludicrous cycle of ridiculous housing booms followed by housing crashes".
Pocket calculator, just in case the computer crashes.
Elsewhere in Minnesota, the state patrol said at least two people were killed in accidents on icy roads, and troopers handled 475 crashes and more than 700 spinouts statewide by Monday evening.
In 1926, he joined the Aéropostale service, and between then and his marriage in April 1931, he survived spectacular crashes, desert storms, rebel attacks and pioneered the airline route from Buenos Aires to Patagonia, all of which provided material for his 1938 collection of newspaper articles, Wind, Sand and Stars.
Computer crashes aside, there was a marked difference between those who carefully planned their first lesson and those who had not.
"I feel I've had enough crashes already," he joked.
Hence the crashes that make the opening phase of the Tour such a lottery.
