Amid this ferment was a small community of Sephardic Jews, who arrived most likely from Persia and India as traders, or perhaps fleeing the Crusades.
A generation charmed by the lugubrious once in O'Neill, Dreiser, and Anderson, now in Steinbeck and Van Wyck Brooks—is perhaps fleeing from the trivial shape of its own thoughts.
In an epically disgusting sealed environment, filthy buzzers by the zillions incubate in a rotting cow's head, feed on heaps of sugar, mate, and meet death by a bug zapper as one watches or, perhaps, flees.
Mr. Crawford said that an estimated 5,500 people in Memphis died in 1878 while perhaps 15,000 fled.
In September 1966, some 10,000 to 30,000 Igbo people were massacred in the Northern Region, and perhaps 1,000,000 fled as refugees to the Igbo-dominated east.
Perhaps relatives fled political oppression in their home country or moved to a place where their children and grandchildren were likely to have more opportunities.
Economic or political turmoil could drive many more to emigrate.And the turmoil bequeathed by Mr Yanukovych (reportedly in Russia, perhaps having fled on his unfortunately named yacht, the Bandido), is acute.
Around this time, but in another wing, a bird, perhaps also fleeing the heat, fluttered overhead through Rooms 229 and 230.
He may even enjoy (as Muldoon does) telling us that he offers no great truths: a poem in the voice of an emigrant (perhaps one fleeing the Irish potato famine) begins, "I am sitting down to write to you from habit.
In Uganda itself, perhaps 1.8m have fled from the LRA.
