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The audience are plunged into darkness and led through a creepy, dream-like narrative, a hotel landscape full of whispers and cryptic threats.
As the narrative progresses, you may feel as if the atmosphere around you were growing close, drained of oxygen, as if the air were full of whispers, as if some unpleasant event were just about to occur — all of which makes it tricky to explain why the reading experience is so very pleasurable.
In "Tailors' Dummies," the father recalls a surprising discovery he made upon entering a neglected room in an old apartment: "From all the crevices in the floor, from all the mouldings, from every recess, there grew slim shoots filling the grey air with a scintillating filigree lace of leaves: a hot-house jungle, full of whispers and flicking lights — a false and blissful spring".
The stories here are set in modern Ireland, although the final one in fact takes place in a Spanish village so cold and dark and full of whispers that it might as well be Toibin's Ireland: "There were still 10 or 12 houses inhabited in the village; nothing happened that was not noticed, the old people sat by windows watching".
In "Tailors' Dummies," the father recalls a surprising discovery he made upon entering a neglected room in an old apartment: "From all the crevices in the floor, from all the mouldings, from every recess, there grew slim shoots filling the grey air with a scintillating filigree lace of leaves: a hot-house jungle, full of whispers and flicking lights—a false and blissful spring".
The plane was full of whispers about gluten, Whole Foods, new products, "going raw," UNFI, and non-GMO food items.
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Tyrus Wong is nearly 80 years old now, and he still can be found for much of each day in the studio behind his home of 40 years, above the back-yard ravine full of whispering eucalyptus and pine trees, cooing doves and squawking blackbirds.
In "Vieux Carré," nearly the entire population of his spooked imagination is spectral: full of echoes, shadows, whispers, "fading but remembered," in his ongoing argument with himself.
Resembling what might come out should Zebedee from The Magic Roundabout attempt to do a poo, and much scorned by Jamie Oliver, the Twizzler was so full of additives the whisper among parents was that one bite could turn your children into werewolves.
Their latest Sung Tongs album -'tongs' being their word for songs - is rife with surging acoustic party music, full of naive chants, arcane whispers, unconventional percussion and free-flowing guitar ragas.
Snowden's workplaces in Geneva, Tokyo and Oahu are hives full of glowing screens and whispered jargon.
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