The reader, too, might understand how even the marvelous can become banal.
Even more marvelous, flowing from the bustle of dozens of different religious denominations was not chaos, but stability; not indiscipline, but self-discipline; not mayhem, but moderation.
Even the marvelous Ekaterina Kondaurova, as Myrtha — the company's most elegantly statuesque dancer — seemed to be letting us know how often she had danced this role.
There is even a marvelous Neapolitan pizza place on Oranienstrasse, also in Kreuzberg, called Pizza a Pezzi-Napulé, which for anyone interested in global pizza-slice ethnography is worth a detour.
Look to the new, but make time for old favorites too. 4 p.m. 1. HOUSES OF GAUDí Strolling the city's grand, leafy boulevards is itself a pleasure, but simultaneously sampling, albeit superficially, some of the masterful works by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí makes a walking tour even more marvelous.
Anyway, I'm not too worried because I've cobbled together a pretty reliable weight-control regimen based on my four-decade survival of Pritikin (briefly), Atkins, the Zone Diet, South Beach and even the marvelous '70s diet Ed McMahon espoused called "Martinis and Whipped Cream" (where you can have all the steak, butter and gin you want, but no carb-filled carrots).
Even the marvelous electronic music, prepared in collaboration with Barry Anderson, sounds ancient: much of it seems to be coming from an enormous plucked or struck string instrument (Orpheus's lyre), which embraces the whole aural perspective; other sequences provide the great echoing voice of a god.
Even two marvelous actors like Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas seemed to walk a well-trod path in "Random Hearts" as bereft spouses who, because they are so unlike, are bound, by laws having more to do with Hollywood narrative than the logic of the heart, to fall in love.
Here he found that even his marvelous strength and endurance had been overtasked, and that his open wound was growing worse, and he was compelled by his medical director to the rest which alone would save his life.
