One Saturday at 5 30, when the vast space was mostly empty, an icy hostess told a walk-in couple: "We are fully committed in the dining room, but it's first come, first served at the bar if you want to take your chances".
It is impossible not to be drawn into Sedgwick's most hostile of worlds: a landscape that is vast and empty, yet claustrophobic, icy cold, conjured in writing that burns.
If you don't quite understand how or why you need to pump the brakes, try practicing the technique in a safe but icy spot, like a completely empty parking lot with plenty of room.
From the confluence the Yenisey River runs for 2,167 miles (3,487 km), mainly along the border between eastern and western Siberia, before emptying into the icy Kara Sea.
It takes him to the empty deserts and the icy mountains and, on several occasions, to within an inch of death.
The town of Burns, the county seat, is almost an hour's drive away over an icy road that is often completely empty.
This time, down through Normal, Illinois, from high up in white Minnesota, dead of winter, icy roads, wind blowing sideways across the empty cornfields.
"For me there is nothing but icy loneliness which makes my head go empty and fills my heart with sadness," he wrote when Valadon dumped him for a wealthy banker.
After 4 h of confinement, the net was lifted and emptied into a tank of icy water, a process which stuns the fish within 3 min. Each group of 500 fish was numbered serially, bled, weighed and digitally photographed within 140 min after stunning, either in the morning (11 am) or afternoon (3 pm).
When their monthly utility charges as much as triple, the Japanese ardor for tackling global warming may cool in the icy realization that being green is going to empty their pockets.
