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But it is much bigger than the Gowanus (three and a half miles long versus one and a half, and wider, too), far more polluted (twenty direct sewage portals all its own), more variably odorous, and, because it serves as the boundary between Brooklyn and Queens, far more peculiar for the fact of its relative obscurity and abandonment.

It is a significant truth, not mentioned anywhere in the abundant explanatory cards and labels in the Oculus, that the Old Testament subjects haunt this central work of European Christendom for reasons more peculiar than it might seem.

He started writing his new book, Instructions, Guidelines, Tutelage, Suggestions, Other Suggestions and Examples Etc., as "light relief", an outlet for some of his more peculiar thoughts.

He took part in swimming exhibitions and various water-related stunts: one of the more peculiar was floating in a tank of water for 128 hours.

The layout for the Ninth Symphony was even more peculiar.

His self-described inspiration for his Kiev congress is even more peculiar than his self-presentation.

The story of Sanford Rivers, a head linesman who became the first N.F.L. official fired for being too heavy, is one of the more peculiar ones this year.

Mr Netanyahu ("Bibi" to Israelis) starred in an even more peculiar effort, turning up on the doorstep of a couple waiting for a baby-sitter.

Then he noticed something even more peculiar.

"I have a more peculiar fetish.

My wife is even more peculiar.