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He was invoking the vicious and sinister qualities that make weasels (along with stoats and ferrets) such satisfying villains in Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows , and such pleasingly greasy stooges in David Letterman's epithet "record industry weasels."
On my way out of town, I drive through a fold in time,a tunnel through the history of shopping:boarded-up storefronts on the narrow commercial streets,the old strips and plazas with a muffler shop or a chicken fryer left,and larger sites--a five-and-dime blown out into a warehouse,fast-food shops, all local chains now,with their scratchy speakers and pot-holed drive-thru lanes;then the first real malls, big as aircraft carriers, low and blocky,their outlying coffee shops and two-screen theaters like escorts;at last a quieting stretch, the freeway growing wallsand the walled tracts all around nestled in their names--The Willows, Hunt Club Crossing, Hidden Acres--their malls planted, soft-colored, smoothly designed,broad single lumps surrounded by asphalt prairie,distant and unobtrusive as buttes.
“The Navajo hogans, among the sand and willows.
Weeping willows hang over the lagoon, around which, in summer, you can take a soporific little tour on a Swan Boat, pedaled by a strapping young man or woman sitting at the rear.
Like Melville's Ishmael, who noted that "meditation and water are wedded for ever," Monet found that all his moods found echoes in the reflected weeping willows and tangled lilies.