His encounter with these past lives is gently comic, strange, dream-like and deeply moving.
They gently crept through a strange jazz arrangement of the Stone Temple Pilots song Vasoline.
"Absolutely," comes his fast answer, spoken, as ever, gently and with a strange mix of confidence and self-effacement.
It is as if we have stumbled across this character in a bar somewhere (or to invoke the title of Kleinzahler's memoir "Cutty, One Rock; Low Characters and Strange Places Gently Explained").
In ninety-five Microes, "Micro" led the audience sometimes gently, sometimes punishingly into a strange world where the musical and the human overlapped.
Knowing I looked strange, I gently knocked on the store window trying to look as unthreatening as possible.
The subsequent years saw Alderman's strange, lumpen career gently taper off, but he will always be fondly remembered as a greentop-loving, pad thumping, Gooch gazumping one-off.
Inspired by a project he was working on about the birth of photography and aviation during "a time when strange blimps floated gently through the sky against early industrialized landscapes," Mr. Noritz, a filmmaker, wrote in an e-mail that he "wanted to build a unique experience for all visitors and myself".
Strangest moment Justin Gatlin gently sticking a finger into Shawn Crawford's ear as they prepared for the 100m final.
Playful as ever, with its scraps of found materials, cartoons, strange photographs, A Life Discarded gently probes the nature of biographical writing while pulling a hidden life into plain view.
