Set very specifically in early 1970, when the great wave of the 1960s had duly broken and rolled back, Inherent Vice is littered with California casualties who find themselves washed up on the dark shores of an unforgiving decade.
The other series is "Dark Shore through Near Trees".
The New Yorker, September 27 , 1993P. 82 Aaron Shapiro, a concert pianist, saw himself, as if in a dream, standing on a dark shore as Caroline walked out of his life.
But when I unmasked the moments writing page after page; reflecting on all that had been, I discovered the hidden talents and strength that had carried me from dark shores to bright dawns.
One leaden January afternoon, walking along a lakeside path after leaving the hospital, Mallon had looked up and watched the dark waves race toward shore and understood that his wife no longer loved him.
Some are fictional, such as Mike Punter's mediums and child-ghosts in his 1875-set Darker Shores or the Fortune's long-running The Woman in Black.
"The Right-Hand Shore" is the dark, magisterial creation of a writer with an uncanny feel for the intersections of place and character in American history.
One night, in his white oxfords, with the pipe glowing, he walked me home along a path through the woods, under a moon, no doubt, with the dark lake water lapping the shore.
"He wasn't someone to let someone else do it," recalled Walter Mess, who had been commander of a near-silent 85-foot vessel that ferried the divers, usually in the dark, within 2,000 feet of shore.
"Is there no ceremony?" I said, watching the groups of people milling at the shore, in the dark, while a man stuck his pitchfork in the fire, turning the wood.
