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Sun, sand, reading for pleasure and scuba-diving were Julia Fairchild's plans for her vacation week on the beautiful island of St . Maarten
I also love its memorable, melodramatic crises, like the moment when Mercédès bursts through the polite fictions surrounding "the Count" to utter her despairing, agonised plea: "Edmond, you will not kill my son?" But I think I find Dantè's narrative most addictive because it's a forerunner of the classic superhero stories – in essence, I'm sitting on the sand reading the world's heaviest comic.
The story of an unnamed narrator trudging through the grass and sand, reading out letters meant for his dead wife, Esther, remains elusive and haunting, the exact time and place of the action obfuscated behind historical yarns and recollections, as though the island is exerting its own autobiography onto the telling.
I also love its memorable, melodramatic crises, like the moment when Mercédès bursts through the polite fictions surrounding "the Count" to utter her despairing, agonised plea: "Edmond, you will not kill my son?" But I think I find Dantè's narrative most addictive because it's a forerunner of the classic superhero stories – in essence, I'm sitting on the sand reading the world's heaviest comic.
And I am bent in a corner of sky in the sand reading a comic.
This is how I found myself in a beach chair, toes in the sand, reading my husband's copy of They Call Me Coach by John Wooden, one of the greatest coaches of all time.
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I often take a book, buy a beer and sit on the sand to read.
And we will, yes, gaze at the pining moon, will pick out brine-blown glass-gems from the sand, will read our future scratched onto a stone.
In one game, children explore numbers, pressing a button to show the numeral scratched in the sand or read in Spanish.
As F1 hits the desert, BBC Sport pulls a few interesting numbers from the sand... Read an accessible version here.
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