Lockhart is also an investor in a secretive project at a remote compound "where death is controlled and bodies are preserved until medical advances can restore individuals to improved lives", and wants, said Scribner, to use the technology on his wife.
Hoffman points out that, by contrast, in a remote compound in western Siberia, "there are still 1.9 million projectiles filled with 5,447 metric tons of nerve agents," some so deadly that "one drop could kill a human being".
Whether practiced in church, temple, or remote compound, religion represents yet another plague of angels with an abundance of randy, unrepentant devils, and wholly against contraception for many obvious, self-serving reasons.
Four days behind them, in Idaho, lies a remote fundamentalist compound where their father governed 50 wives.
On the instructions of a previously minor figure, Abbot Enomoto, who seems to have supernatural powers, Orito is secluded in a remote temple compound, a place of unspeakable horrors with shades of Murakami, Margaret Atwood and Ursula K Le Guin.
For over 20 years he's been staging animal attacks for film, TV and commercials with the tigers, lions, cougars, leopards and bears he lives alongside on his remote mountain compound in Big Bear, San Bernardino.
Book 1 has a wintry elegance to it, as the investigation compels Blomkvist (and, later, Salander) to move up north from Stockholm to the Vanger family's remote island compound, a bleakly beautiful place dotted with houses inhabited by relatives who distrust one another.
As the story hurtles to its conclusion with a climactic combat à trois in a remote Siberian compound, the Russos behold the internecine struggle with a horror for which they find a striking, if fleeting, cinematic correlate: they back away from the action, which has, until then (like that of the rest of the film), been realized in hyperkinetic extreme closeups, and offer a few brief wide tableaux.
At first, Kershaw balked at making the trip to work in remote villages and compounds surrounding the city.
Herry Ardyanto, the police chief, said the difficulty in getting information about remote regions was compounded by the residents' reluctance to leave their villages "even if there is no electricity or water".
