Now, in his bravura eighth novel, "Chronic City," he visits what may be his strangest destination yet: the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Then, we see the exotic national flag and strange-named destinations of connecting flights and learn we are in Port Moresby, circa 2006.
The nightlife of Playa del Inglés is a 5km taxi or bus ride away; as is the Yumbo centre, a strange multi-level "destination" full of restaurants, bars and shops, which, after 10pm transforms into the self-styled "Gay Center" with drag shows, bars and clubs.
Godus does have its flaws: its touch controls for shaping its virtual world aren't quite right; the little followers that you command can be maddening in their ability to pick the strangest paths to a destination; and it's a bit slow in its early hours.
Whales move through there, and there's tuna seasonally, and eels breed there, but something has to be happening there — it's a destination, but a strange one".
Whales move through there, and there's tuna seasonally, and eels breed there, but something has to be happening there it's a destination, but a strange one".
It's even better when your destination is exotic, strange and specific -- say, Manila, 1982 -- and in Michael Greif's production of "Dogeaters," the journey is as titillating as a great vacation that leads you willingly into danger.
The experience of following a strange hyperlink to a familiar destination made physical.
To solve minimum exposure path (MEP) problem in wireless sensor networks more efficiently, this work proposes an algorithm called target guiding self-avoiding random walk with intersection (TGSARWI), which mimics the behavior of a group of random walkers that seek path to their destinations in a strange area.
