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He would cut into the belly of one, at the kitchen sink, Mother squabbling in the background, and he'd be up to his elbows in silver, blood shining from the knife, the room smelling of sweat, boots, coffee, smoke, and though I'd been at home, in bed the whole time, I could see the Puyallup River, the herons rising, cattails and redwing blackbirds with their bottlebrush shapes and streaks of color, from shore to shore a thick fog, but rolling up and off like smoke, a reel singing as the steelhead ran with the line, the hurry, the thrash and splashing, feet stumbling along the shore to keep up, to keep the line from getting cut.
His most uncanny disclosures came not in the obvious transcendentalism of 2001 but in The Shining --which, barring some last miracle in the forthcoming Eyes Wide Shut , ought to be his masterpiece.
St. Jerome, translating from the Hebrew and referring to the Greek, while preparing the (Latin) Vulgate, evidently mistranslated the Hebrew qaran to shine, for qeren horn and went on record with cornuta , horned: Quod cornuta esset facies sua . Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable calls the translation “a blunder,” explaining that “the Hebrew for this shining may be translated either as `sent forth beams' or as `sent forth horns.
It looks like the Americanization of bright as a button by somebody who missed the point--the juggling with the two meanings of bright `mentally alert' and `physically shining.
Journalist David Halberstam and former Pentagon official Daniel Ellsberg, who are characters in Shining Lie , complain that the Vietnam film distorts the nonfiction book it is based on.
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