For those who worry they might get stuck while wriggling through the passage (it happens), there's a "virtual" tunnel you can try outside the Far View Visitor Center.
As Henry puts it in the novel's starkest passage, "What happens when we die?" The kind of novel Carey writes – a kind in which character is intimately related to plot – is perhaps not the ideal scaffold on which to hang such grand and unanswerable questions about the soul.
Passage can happen in January if constituents tell their lawmakers they want action, not just promises, next year.
If they succeed, the final passage will happen, but it will be a bruising battle until the end.
Opening line: "How could she not feed their daughter?" Notable passage: "This happened a lot in the future, in their family, going out to dinner with Edie sitting at a separate table.
As often happens, passage of the new law has helped raise to the level of national discussion the topic it was meant to suppress.
There is a tantalisingly short passage about what happens between the Stones on stage and what Wood actually does musically, especially with Keith Richards, 'a sparring partner, a musical brother, a buddy, a bully and a catalyst'.
If you're writing a novel with a contemporary setting there need to be long passages where nothing happens save for TV watching: "Later, George watched Grand Designs while eating HobNobs.
The most arresting passages, as it happens, are wordless duels between Moss -- visible at a piano behind the scrim -- and Silber at an onstage spinet.
The first sustained stream-of-consciousness passage in the novel happens partly when Stephen Daedalus has closed his eyes to "hear his boots crush crackling wrack and shells".
