But as the lake level dipped, the Gnarly Gar floated farther from shore, so that now the bridge between the marina and the land is unable to cover the distance.
There's less time, somehow, for the depth of history yesterday's trends float farther and farther from their points of origin, commingling as styles without pasts, images without contexts.
But Cairns observed a serve with top spin that floated farther than a matching spinless serve.
I watch that New York float farther away all the time, marveling at the sparkle, but relieved to live in a different city.
The onboard computer in each buoy, in communication with an array of small devices called wave riders that float farther out in the ocean, adapts, or "tunes" to each incoming wave, adjusting the way the giant internal shaft rides up and down as the swell passes through.
On a crisp autumn day, the topology of our civilization spreads before the eye: the Atlantic flowing into the graceful neck of New York Harbor Sandyy Hook, N.J., in the near ground; to the left, Sea Gate and Coney Island in Brooklyn; farther off, floating on the horizon, the Marine Parkway Bridge leading to Jacob Riis Park and the Rockaways in Queens.
Many things have washed up here: plastic bottles, sticks and floats, and, farther on, a stable door whose bolt is broken.
I began to see Gaza as, I suspect, many Gazans do: a floating island, a dystopian Atlantis, drifting farther away from contact with any other society.
Farther on, the din of laughter was floating outside of Olstofa, a watering hole on Vegamotastig Street where writers, journalists, artists and other locals were cozied up in wooden booths drinking beer.
