The volume features plants with bright webbed filaments flying from them, wounded patched pears that look like images from the surrealist Magritte, swimming trees, Bosch-like beasts, headless legs, hands that transform into pockets& 8212and 371 more pages of inscrutable images that recall the likes of Borges, Calvino, Dali, Ovid's "Metamorphoses," and the Renaissance journals of da Vinci.
In Henry Randolph Latimer's long poem "Virginia Dare, or the Lost Colony of America," the colonists' fictional Indian patron, Chief Croatan, is the continent's first scoutmaster, who "taught the Saxon lads" swimming, tree-climbing, fishing, tracking, trapping, and archery.
-MAYA ANGELOU I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to the barn.
We're right at the top of the swimming tree!
Hasina revisited fond memories from her village home – climbing trees, swimming in the canals, catching fish and eating green mangoes from other people's trees.
He is imagining this, the trees swimming across the land like sand octopuses, flailing their spastic arms, when the girl catches his wrist in her fingers.
It was as if Los Angeles were a chronic disease, instead of a temperate urban stretch nestled cozily between the Pacific Ocean and breathtaking mountains, where people own outdoor grills, swimming pools and trees bursting with free citrus fruit.
Upstairs at the museum, in the small bedroom adjoining Laxness's writing room, we peer through a telescope positioned at a window that looks out over the swimming pool and trees towards the mountains and craggy fields.
A world that in its heyday had more than 500 hotels and bungalow colonies and a million summertime visitors has been reduced to a handful of hotels surrounded by decaying bungalows and swimming pools with trees growing out of them.
The tag said size 59, an alarming, hopefully metric sight you would never see in that other city of palm trees, swimming pools, pampered royalty, 24-hour traffic and male dominance, Los Angeles, where the dresses trend toward size zero.
The construction unions want the 100,000 man-years of labor Westway promises to provide, and defended the project for the time it would cut from an automobile trip up the West Side of N.Y.C.; the housing, grass, trees, swimming pools, and tennis courts it would provide, and the enormous commitment of federal money it would bring to N.Y.C. Witnesses called it a "unique opportunity".
