Like a medieval alchemist intent on preserving his formulas from rivals, Mr. Engstrom is unwilling to disclose to outsiders the precise location of his big new operation, with 60 tanks, each holding 70,000 gallons of water, or precisely what techniques he plans to use there.
"Pilgrim" is short on geographical specifics, and -- in a book seething with detail -- there are few that describe locations an outsider could find.
Conversations can still be interesting to outsiders, depending on the location in which they're happening, he says, but Slight's not really a confessional medium in the same way that Whisper or Secret are.
This week's story, "Member / Guest," is set in a Long Island beach club — in "the country," as the fourteen-year-old protagonist, Beckett, and her friends would say, not "the Hamptons," as any outsider might refer to its location.
By Cressida Leyshon November 4, 2012 This week's story, "Member / Guest," is set in a Long Island beach club — in "the country," as the fourteen-year-old protagonist, Beckett, and her friends would say, not "the Hamptons," as any outsider might refer to its location.
In Ireland, where the two already battle for food and space, the outsider has popped up in locations where there are no records of it ever being imported.
Across the pond, the News of the World hacking scandal showed that the police and service providers are not immune from sharing private customer information, including location data, with outsiders.
In your books there's an incessant drumbeat against the clueless outsider who moves to a rural location.
At the entrance to the Zuni war god shrine, its location a secret from outsiders, the ground glitters with scattered turquoise chips and cornmeal.
"It would be hard to justify ratings by outsiders watching videotapes at a remote location who never visited the classroom and couldn't see for themselves a teacher's interaction and relationship with students".
