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Toru's conversations with the lieutenant yield an enduring image: a dry well, whose dark silences facilitate thought and force people to confront their demons.
Having survived years of sandstorms and blizzards, demons and dragons, Xuanzang was feted on his return to the capital in 645.
Consider Jones' pièce de résistance : On "one particular evening," in response to "his inner demons," and more specifically to the Rockefeller Foundation's rejection of a grant application, Kinsey allegedly hanged himself by the hand and balls from an overhead pipe "long enough for this self-appointed Messiah of the sexually despised to experience much pain and suffering, precisely as he had intended."
But, increasingly, there are calls for conservation biology to cast aside its sentimental demons: biodiversity is a commodity that can be bought and sold; conservation is business.
And anyway, these millennial demons are a particularly clumsy lot, far less canny and elegant than, say, Rosemary's Baby 's John Cassavetes, whose earthly weapon of choice was spiked chocolate mousse.