"But it's felt like only a few seconds, right?" "Whenever someone asks me how I'm doing, I find myself saying, 'I'm going through a passage.' Everything is a transition, a stop on the way to the destination, turbulence.
It is this volume that makes it attractive to gangs and a nightmare for customs trying to combat the illegal passage of everything from pangolins to rocket launchers.
In tomorrow's issue of Nature, researchers present evidence that a randomly grooved surface actually reduces the drag generated when a fluid flows past it at high speeds--a finding that, if confirmed, might smooth the passage of everything from cars to planes.
Lacking the pressure of a plot, these passages stake everything on their pure interest as writing.
This was too bad, because in passages where everything went well it was thrilling to hear the glorious sound this great orchestra summoned in Puccini's score.
Except for some retrospective passages, almost everything in the multifarious story takes place in the day or so leading up to Pearl Harbor.
Tada, the children's theater troupe, sends up this rite of passage uproariously in "Everything About Camp (Almost)." A revue with scenes by Michael Slade and songs by numerous authors, the hourlong show spoofs mess-hall menus, campfire ghost stories, swimming lessons, pranks (rife, I'm afraid, with novel suggestions) and the exhortations of well-meaning moms and dads.
Certain rites of passage require that everything must first seem upside down, completely backwards or devoid of meaning before another leap into the unknown can ignite the dance of life again.
Ellison's rite-of-passage novel absorbed everything from black folklore to Dostoyevski's "Notes from Underground," creating something entirely new, lasting, and American.
Having done so much with images, with eloquent passages that tell everything without dialogue, he stops to acknowledge the power of words.
"I think 'evolved' is a term I am comfortable with, because it implies a passage of time and everything changes over time.
