I chuckled to myself, thinking of the many times when I'd imagined that I was as far from the sight and sound of my native language as I could possibly get -- on the riverfront in Luang Prabang, Laos, or in a church in the Slovenian Alps -- and suddenly, English had materialized on someone's lips, on a menu.
And if that was not enough to reveal that a brand-new subway car had materialized on the rails, there was another tip-off: 10 television cameras jammed into the first car, along with enough reporters and top transit officials to accurately simulate rush-hour crowding.
It's hard to say which is less believable: that such news would cause a cheering crowd of poetry lovers to assemble, or that the couple would seem not at all alarmed that a large mob had materialized on their property.
It's as if the penis was drawn towards me, or I was compelled towards it, so hypnotized that I barely even realized what I was doing after I heard that Justin Bieber dickpics had materialized on the internet.
Fliers similar to those that popped up South Carolina have materialized on suburban doorsteps and windshields in Atlanta, Texas, Tennessee, and Florida in the past few weeks, scaring local residents and raising fears that the hooded hate group is undergoing another resurgence.
Since neither the promised closed-circuit TV nor the 9/11 family member trip to Cuba has materialized, we must rely on reporters to be kept informed about these proceedings.
The second film was, of course, "The Big Lebowski," the blissful comedy that, after being dismissed by critics on its release, has materialized into a cult phenomenon, celebrated in an annual event called Lebowski Fest and consecrated by the predictable academic studies.
Then you see that Biden has put on different clothes, and that Hillary Clinton has materialized.
But neither has materialized.
Neither project has materialized.
