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There ought to be room in the retelling of it for the letters Mark Twain and Frederick Douglass exchanged, for the similarities between Invisible Man and Ben Franklin's Autobiography , for the presence of Charles Chesnutt at the banquet to honor Twain shortly before the latter's death, and for the monument in Mississippi to the slaves who rode with a band of Confederate irregulars.
Yet nothingabout the frontier's fenced compoundssuggests the traveller en route elsewhereshould stop--even if stepping on the gascan't do much toward cancelling those pictures,the color of pain, a visual undersong ...Once coppergreen expanses of waterslide into view, though, no one could failto sense the difference in beingbelow sea level--air heavyin the ear, oxygen-rich, cool, dry,scented with desert, and holy enough.A hand dipped in water pondersthe viscous feel of minerals in solution,and little tumuli of salts and carbonatesbuild a submarine city sprawlingfor miles under the hammered-metal surface.On a shore hazed with distance, neat rowsof date palms identify themselveswith a green herringbone frond and ripen foodstuffs for, say, the heavenly banquet.Ritual ablution even so has coatedyour skin with a pale silt glove;and sea and desert are one.
Prince Charles, at whose family Mr Murdoch's family constantly snipes, has decided that supping once with the devil is enough" (the prince attended an earlier banquet for President Jiang at which his mother, the queen, was host).
When she was not included at an important wedding banquet, she threw into the hall a golden apple marked "For the Fairest."
After its final quotation from Evans-Pritchard, who wrote Sept. 22 that "those who say that this scandal does not rise to the level of Watergate may have to eat their words," Private Eye says, "Perhaps they could be joined on this verbal banquet by Evans-Pritchard."
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