"Even in formation I was a loner, though I took care not to stand out," Grass writes; "I was a schemer whose mind was forever elsewhere".
"Even in formation I was a loner, though I took care not to stand out," Grass writes; "I was a schemer whose mind was forever elsewhere". Bland and pat and dreamy enough, you might think, but in German it is, again, a little worse.
Like Don DeLillo, Murakami is a writer whose characters often act out of character, functioning as voicepieces for the author's own passions; but unlike DeLillo, whose passions are homegrown, Murakami is forever looking elsewhere.
I've been an instructor of personal essay/memoir writing at the New School and elsewhere forever, and widely published writer of personal essays and books including: "Finding Mr. Rightstein"(memoir) and "Writing From Personal Experience" (how-to/how-I book on writing) even longer.
Things don't have to work completely, or forever, to inspire change elsewhere.
Japan's immediate prospects matter greatly for a world worried about slowdowns elsewhere, and forever depressed about reform and recovery in the other great has-been economy, Germany.
Milner's project sets an example at precisely the right moment, when our new skills and technology can support the undeniable human mandate to find life elsewhere and forever enlighten our consciousness of who we are and how we came to be.
For many in New York and elsewhere, 2012 will forever be connected to a pair of devastating disasters: the widespread damage caused by Hurricane Sandy and the wrenching massacre of 26 people, including 20 children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
Two years since the destruction along Japan's northeast coast, some communities in Fukushima are just starting to come to terms with a sobering realization: their old homes are probably lost forever, and they must start anew elsewhere.
Another area is mitigation banking, where, for example, a state's department of transportation could buy acres to be preserved forever to compensate for having destroyed land elsewhere.
As the Psalmist declares elsewhere, "O Lord, my God, forever I will thank you".
