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Idaho, by Emily Ruskovich
Books recommended by people who love books always seem to be among my favorite reads. Especially when the person who recommends is also a writer whose work I enjoy and appreciate. That happened with Idaho, Iowa Writers Workshop grad Emily Ruskovich's debut novel.
Sarah Combs, author of Breakfast Served Anytime [https://daeandwrite.wordpress.com/2014/06/11/with-a-side-of-warm-southern-wit-please-breakfast-served-anytime-by-sarah-combs/] and The Light Fantastic, raved about Idaho during a writing workshop. So I picked it up on audible.
Audible is great. It allows me to "read" novels while traveling between home and work and on those long distance rides to various cases across the state. But sometimes, and I suspect this is one of them, I don't experience the fullness of the language as I would have in the written version.
Idaho begins in 2004. Ann and Wade live on a mountain in Idaho. They are alone and self-sufficient. Ann, a former music teacher, has her piano and Wade his work, crafting hand-hewn handles for knives. Ann worries about Wade's hereditary and increasingly-apparent early-Alzheimers (he is only mid-50s). And she worries about the tragedy.
Nine years ago, when Wade was still married to Jenny and both of his daughters were still alive, a mouse had crawled along the top of the truck's exhaust pipe into the engine compartment and built its nest on the manifold. She thinks of how strange it is that Wade probably remembers that mouse, remembers the sound of it skittering under the hood, and yet he's forgotten his first wife's name. Or so it seems sometimes. But the mouse — the mouse is very much alive in his memory.
A few years after Ann and Wade married, Ann found a pair of deerskin gloves in a toolbox high on a shelf in a closet. They were much nicer than the work gloves Wade usually wore, and seemed to be brand new except for the odor of something burned. That was how she learned about the mouse in the first place. She asked why he kept the gloves in the closet instead of using them. Wade told her that he wanted to preserve the smell.
What smell is that?
The smell of a rodent's nest that caught fire.
The last smell in his daughter's hair.
According to her website, Ruskovich grew up on Hoodoo Mountain in the Idaho Panhandle. I think anyone who grows up on a mountain named Hoodoo would have to have a great imagination. She knows the territory of which she writes. The isolating, bitter winters of unremitting snow, the miraculous spring of flowers, flies, and sunshine.
With Idaho, she writes a story of one day and many decades. Her perspective moves from Ann to Jenny to Wade, to May and June — Jenny and Wade's daughters, to Elliott — one of Ann's students. We learn early on that Jenny, during a family outing to cut and clear timber, has killed her six-year old daughter May, striking her with an axe. June, then 11, runs away terrified and cannot be found. From this crucible, the novel moves forward with Jenny into prison, with Wade into dementia, with Ann who serves as surrogate for what the reader wants to know — why would Jenny do such a thing to her own child.
But, as multiple reviews have noted, that's not what Idaho is about. From the San Francisco Chronicle:
Ostensibly it's a novel about a tragedy — young mother Jenny inexplicably kills her daughter May with a hatchet, while older daughter June vanishes into the woods. Refusing to explain her actions, Jenny is charged with murder and sent to prison. Wade, her grief-stricken husband, is punishingly alone, struggling until he eventually marries Ann, the local piano teacher.
You might think that the primary focus of the book is going to be a business-as-usual exploration of why Jenny killed May, or where June is and how they find her. But this novel is much more interested in a deeper, more haunting meditation on love, loss, forgiveness, time and memory.
Ruskovich's website includes some thoughtful questions should your book club choose to read Idaho. I'll add this one, from Sarah and me: what do you think Ruskovich intended with the two short passages, opposing but parallel, where Wade and Jenny encounter help from a childless older couple and where Ann seeks help from a family but doesn't receive it?
Here's the link to Ruskovich's questions: http://www.emilyruskovich.com/book-club-questions/.
Another disadvantage of audible, I don't have the opportunity to book mark passages with food. I do recall Wade, Jenny, May and June were drinking lemonade on the day of May's death. Ann visited a farm specializing in ostrich products. Limited menu available from my memories, but I would serve:
Pink Lemonade Limoncello
Equal parts Vodka and Limoncello, splash of cranberry juice, sour mix and lemonade. Shake over ice.
Definitely something potato. I checked out the Idaho Potato Commission website and these Herb-Roasted Oven Fries look good: https://idahopotato.com/recipes/herb-roasted-idaho-potato-fries
Ostrich Steaks
I love ostrich meat. It's lean, healthy and delicious.
Sautéed Ostrich Fillets with Green Peppercorn
Pre-heat pan to HOT. Add 2 TBS. of olive oil and a generous sprinkling of green peppercorns. Sear one side of the fillet for 2 minutes, turn fillet and cover the pan and turn off the heat and let rest for 4 minutes.
For dessert the best I can come up with is either black and white cookies from the store or these black and white cookie bars. For Jenny. In prison. http://www.bakeorbreak.com/2015/06/black-and-white-cookie-bars/
Ann is a piano teacher, in fact, she meets Wade when he comes to her for lessons. Music is at the crux of this novel, but it is not music that I can find reference to. As a substitute, I would find some folk songs on piano.
Ann Rachel Weisz
Jenny Jennifer Aniston
Wade Dennis Quaid
Elizabeth Kristen Stewart
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Imagine Me Gone, Adam Haslett ✎✎✎
February 19, 2017 by Pamela Dae
When the National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists for Fiction were announced, I'd read only one of the books: Commonwealth by Ann Patchett, https://daeandwrite.wordpress.com/2016/11/17/commonwealth-by-ann-patchett-✎✎✎✎/, and loved it. Since then, I'm through Moonglow by Michael Chabon, https://daeandwrite.wordpress.com/2017/01/21/moonglow-by-michael-chabon-✎✎✎/, and Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett. I have Zadie Smith's Swing Time and Louis Erdrich's LaRose in my near future.
On a idyllic day on the Maine water, Imagine Me Gone finds British venture capitalist John takes two of his three children boating. Celia is the second-oldest of the three; ultra-responsible and caring, if a bit of a bore. Alec, the youngest, is a whiny, clingy child wanting always to be held. Once they are on the water, John leans back into the boat, closes his eyes and pronounces to his children: "Imagine me gone, imagine it's just the two of you. What do you do?" Celia wishes for her stronger older brother, or to be stronger, or at the very least for her father to quit play-acting and help them get to shore.
But John doesn't help. Arguably, John has never helped his wife Margaret or their three children. His career, which brought them back to America from Margaret's preferred life across the pond, has tanked. His relationship with Michael is ineffectual. He and Margaret fight loudly every night, frightening Alec into hiccups.
John has chronic, clinical depression. It is a condition that materially affects every member of his family, each of whom has a compelling authorial voice in Imagine Me Gone.
From Margaret:
"I'm the only one who doesn't always want answers. John may never articulate his questions, but they are with him, a way of being. And the children want answers to everything all the time. What's for breakfast, for lunch, for dinner? Where's Kelsey? Where's Dad? Why do we have to come in? Why do we have to go to bed? Some days the only words I speak to them are answers, and reasons I can't answer, and instructions in place of the answers they want."
"This is the thing: He isn't calling about his exam. I don't want to know that, but I do. He's calling to be reassured about something he can't put into words yet. I glimpsed it in him when he was young, but told myself, No, don't imagine that. Children have stages; he'll change. Then the words started running out of him in a torrent, and I knew they were being chased out by a force he couldn't see. What was I supposed to say to Margaret? That I see it in him?"
Celia:
"When Paul drank more than a diabetic should or we argued about petty domestic things, I would employ a kind of preemptive nostalgia, filing the episodes away under the heading A Couple's Early Years. This general retrospective of the present leaped ahead to forgive our moments of anger and doubt, and the occasional day when the frustration and recriminations between us became grinding. It helped alleviate my sense of having been duped into believing Paul would be the person to deliver me from my family, rather than imitate it. And really it was okay, and most often better than that, being the object of his desire, sensing he would never leave me. That we were safe."
Alec:
As I stepped out of the cabin, whiteness blinded me. The snow-covered yard glistened under the full sun. Icicles lining the roof of the shed dripped with meltwater. The fir trees, which had stood motionless and black against the gray sky, appeared alive again, green and moist in the fresh light. The footprints that Michael and I had made on the snowy path were dissolving, fading into ovals on the flagstone. Beneath our tracks in the driveway I could see gravel for the first time since we'd arrived. For weeks it had been frigid cold, but now had come this December thaw. I wasn't certain what day it was, or what time, only that it had to be well after noon already.
But perhaps it is Michael the reader hears most clearly, learns most deeply even through the mental illness that drives and disturbs him. We know of the path of devastation his love creates, his musical knowledge and reverence for Donna Summer, his humor, his lack of self-control. Even as he is annoying us with an exhaustive list, we are amused by him and wish him well. He's trying to beat the beast, much more, we think, than his father ever did.
"I remember my first dose of Klonopin the way I imagine the elect recall their high school summer romances, bathed in the golden light of a perfect carelessness, untouched and untouchable by time's predations or the foulness of any present pain. As Cat Stevens wrote, The first cut is the deepest, though I've always preferred Norma Fraser's cover to the original (the legendary Studio One, Kingston, Jamaica, 1967). Stevens sings it like a pop song, but Fraser knows the line is true, that she'll never love like that again. Her voice soars over the reverb like a bird in final flight. The first cut is the deepest. I've since learned all about GABA receptors and molecular binding, benzos and the dangers of tolerance, but back then I knew only that I had received an invisible and highly effective surgery to the mind, administered by a pale yellow tablet scored down the middle and no larger than an aspirin. There is so much drivel about psychoactive meds, so much corruptions, bad faith over- and underprescription, vagueness, profiteering, ignorance, and hope, that it's easy to forget they sometimes work, alleviating real suffering, at least for a time. This was such a time."
Adam Haslett
Imagine Me Gone was, for me, a strange book. Each of the five narrators is to a certain extent unreliable and the family picture comes together only when viewing all of the pieces together, like a work of pointillism. The writing is lovely as you can see from the pieces I've included here and the reviewers agree it's a compelling work of fiction dealing sensitively with mental illness.
A review I read before I read the novel said this is a book about how far a family will go to help a family member with mental illness; how much of one's own life is a person willing to cede to maintain some normalcy for another who could have little on his or her own. I suppose that's true, but I thought it was more about family and expectations and loss and ultimately love.
I can't cite a menu from the book because I listened to it on Audible. I do remember Alec and Michael eating doughnuts every morning and Margaret's frustration at going out for an overly-expensive dinner when she would have rather cooked at home. Perhaps if you want to replicate a menu from the book, you can look for that scene, somewhere around 2/3 of the way through.
I would focus on the environment of Maine and serve a blueberry dessert; maybe pie or cobbler. I would also pull in Michael's life in London and serve a shepherd's pie or maybe roast beef with potatoes so that I could have leftovers for the week.
This is the easy part. Just play Donna Summer all night.
John Jude Law/Ewan McGregor
Margaret This is a total Grace Kelly role. I can see Gwyneth Paltrow maybe.
Michael Andrew Garfield
Celia Blake Lively
Alec John Gallagher, Jr.
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The Sport of Kings, C.E. Morgan ✎✎✎
Horse Racing Neck and Neck, public domain
My mom asked me what book she should recommend for her book club to read. I suggested The Sport of Kings, by Kentucky author C.E. Morgan. I hadn't read The Sport of Kings, but I like to support local authors, I liked Morgan's first novel All the Living and I had heard good things about The Sport of Kings. Two weeks later, the founder of my mother's book club called and asked me to present the book for them.
I soon found myself studying this 500+ novel for themes, plot, structure, style, literary allusions . . . in short, I felt like I was back in my undergrad literary seminar and my grade was just as important! I didn't want to let down my mom or the women in her group with a presentation on The Sport of Kings.
In the end, the women were lovely, appreciative, and I ended up actually quite enjoying the application of my college student skills.
In this age of twitter, Facebook, goodreads, tumbler, ad nauseum, C.E. Morgan is a throwback: she's an author who allows her writing to speak for itself, preferring to keep an exceedingly low profile. If she has a website, I can't find it. In one of her rare interviews, she does admit to graduating from Berea College in Kentucky and Harvard Divinity School. Her novels are filled with the tones, colors, sights, and sounds of rural Kentucky as well as theological meditations.
I've read many of the reviews of The Sport of Kings. The word "sweeping" is used quite a bit. "Generational." "Epic." It is all those things and more: long, complex, contrary, palaverous, disturbing, beautiful. My personal theory is that The Sport of Kings is Morgan's attempt to define Kentucky first, its people second, and the thoroughbred industry third in all of their beautiful cruelty. To do this, she uses individual allegorical characters. Back-to-nature Pen. Salt-of-the-earth-farmer-Jamie. Narcissistic-land-owner-Henry.
At the heart of The Sport of Kings is horse farm owner Henry Forge and his daughter Henrietta. Henry is obsessed with breeding: the perfect horse and the perfect progeny and will go to any length to achieve his goals. Henry believes he's achieved at least one of his goals with Hellsmouth, a fiery filly. But when a recently released ex-con, Allmon, arrives to work as a groom on Henry's farm, complications (as they say) ensue.
Morgan's style ranges from the scientific exploration of equine breeding, to bloated descriptions of natural phenomenon. At various points it takes her two pages to effectively cover one year in Henry Forge's life and two pages to describe a sunset.
The corn spat him out. His face scraped by the gauntlet, he clutched handfuls of husk and stood hauling air with his hair startled away from his forehead. Here the old land is the old language: The remnants of the county fall away in declining slopes and swales from their property line. The neighbor's tobacco plants extend as far as the boy can see, so that impossibly varying shades of green seem to comprise the known world, the undulating earth an expanse of green sea dotted only by black-ship tobacco barns, a green so penetrating, it promises a cool, fertile core a mile beneath his feet. In the distance, the fields incline again, slowly rippling upward, a grassed blanket shaken to an uncultivated sky. A line of trees traces the swells on that distant side, forming a dark fence between two farms. The farmhouse roofs are black as ink with their fronts obscured by evergreens, so the world is black and green and black and green without interruption, just filibustering earth. The boy knows the far side of that distant horizon is more of the bright billowing same, just as he knows they had once owned all of this land and more when they came through the Gap and staked a claim, and if they were not the first family, they were close. They were Kentuckians first and Virginians second and Christians third and the whole thing was sterling, his father said. The whole goddamn enterprise.
Truthfully, I found myself often bogged down in the vocabulary at times. But if you slog through these places, the plot holds.
Having now read the book, I do recommend The Sport of Kings but it is with reservation. Make sure your book club has set aside plenty of time to read. This is for book clubs that enjoy more challenging reads.
There may be food described in the novel, but I wasn't scouring the pages of The Sport of
Kings for food references. This is a Kentucky novel, I am a Kentuckian, and I would fix traditional Kentucky food. So my menu would include:
Mint Juleps
Country Ham on Beaten Biscuits
Beer cheese with crackers and celery
Corn Pudding. This is my favorite recipe but there are many. It's from ShakerTown at Pleasant Hill:
3 tablespoons butter, softened
3 whole eggs, slightly beaten
2 cups frozen corn
In a large bowl, blend the butter, sugar, flour and salt.
Add the eggs, and beat well with a rotary beater or mixer on low –.
Stir in the corn and milk (if using frozen corn, chop it up a little first to release the milky juices).
Pour the ingredients into a buttered flat 10×6″ casserole and bake at 325* for 45 minutes, stirring once halfway through the baking period.
When done, the pudding will be golden brown on top and a knife inserted in the middle will come out clean.
THIS MIXTURE CAN BE PREPARED AHEAD OF TIME AND KEPT IN THE REFRIGERATOR. STIR WELL, THEN POUR INTO A BAKING DISH AND BAKE AS INSTRUCTED.
Steamed asparagus
"Kentucky pie" aka the pie named after the Run for the Roses which name has now been copyrighted.
Recipes for Mint Juleps and Kentucky pie here: https://daeandwrite.wordpress.com/2015/05/01/the-first-saturday-in-may/
Town & Country offered a Kentucky Derby playlist in 2014 that would work quite well for The Sport of Kings. You can find it here: http://www.townandcountrymag.com/the-scene/parties/a1923/kentucky-derby-party-music/
To their suggestions, I would add:
Run for the Roses, Dan Fogelberg
Blue Moon of Kentucky, Bill Monroe
Kentucky Rain, Elvis Presley
Kentucky Woman, Neil Diamond (I hate it but . . .)
Paradise, John Prine
Henrietta — Kentucky Girl Jennifer Lawrence, as if the book was written with her in mind
Henry Forge — Matthew McConaughey
Allmon — Jessie Williams
John Henry Forge – Sam Shepard
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Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta ✎ ✎ ✎ ✎
The late 60s and early 70s are hot in literary circles. I've read at least four novels this year that examine the events of the Age of Aquarius from the perspective of today and each of the following are reviewed on daeandwrite.wordpress.com: Manson (The Girls), Gen-X kids (The Nest), would've been rock stars who aged into generic suburbanites (Modern Lovers). In Dana Spiotta's Eat the Document the focus is on war protestors: revolutionaries whose violent activities forced them off the grid, underground, and into new identities.
The first thing about the novel that puzzled me was the title: Eat the Document, comes from a documentary of Bob Dylan's 1966 tour of the United Kingdom with the Hawks during which he transitions from folk singer to rock star. (The entire film is actually available to watch on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJWWEjyqI68.) So, there's a documentary maker in Eat the Document (the novel) but he's making anti-war films. And yes, Bob Dylan was anti-war, I just think the connection is tenuous. And I for one had never heard of the Bob Dylan Eat the Document documentary. I haven't watched the documentary so I don't know if there's any explanation therein for the title.
There are other questions I have. Luckily, Dana Spiotta is coming to my hometown this weekend (September 16-18, 2016) to speak and teach at the Kentucky Women Writer's Conference. So I'm hoping to be able to bend her ear about a few of those.
Ms. Spiotta: I want to know what about this unique time period in American history grabbed you. Why did you choose to write about war protestors who go on the run. Are you as big of a fan of the Beach Boys as her character Jason. Did ______ and ______ meet at the _______ on ________. Do you most identify with Henry, as I suspect, or another character and why.
To begin, Mary and Bobby have done something. They must go on the run and create new identities for themselves, somewhat easier to do in the earliest 70s. The reader travels with Mary as she assumes new names, appearances and personalities. But Bobby disappears while Spiotta introduces us to Seattle in the late 1990s and a radical-ish bookstore run by a low-key guy named Nash. Mary — now known as Louise — and her teenage son Jason wind up in the Seattle suburbs as well. Jason is fifteen and has many obsessions: music, finding his mother's secrets, competing with his next door neighbor. But none are larger than his self-obsession.
I am the center of the culture. I am genesis, herald, harbinger. The absolute germinal zero point–that's me. I am the sun around which all the American else orbits. In fact, I am America, I exist more than other Americans. America is the center of the world, and I am the center of America. I am fifteen, while, middle class and male. Middle-aged men and women scurry for my attention. What Internet sites I visit. What I buy. What my desires are. What movies I watch. What and who I want; when and how I want it. People get paid a lot of money to think of how to get to me and mine.
Reviewing for the New York Times in 2006, the year Eat the Document was released, Michiko Kakutani said: "By cutting back and forth between Mary's story and the stories of her son, Jason; her former lover and fellow fugitive, Bobby; and Bobby's best friend, Henry, Ms. Spiotta has constructed a glittering collage of a book — a book that possesses the staccato ferocity of a Joan Didion essay and the historical resonance and razzle-dazzle language of a Don DeLillo novel." http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/03/books/03kaku.html?_r=0
I listened to Eat the Document on audio driving back and forth to court in another city, but I actually pulled over and stopped the car to write down my favorite line from the book.
"We identify ourselves by what moves us."
That seems not only true, but aspirational.
Would your book club enjoy Eat the Document? It was a National Book Award finalist and certainly worthy of that honor. It is meaty, slightly twisty, intriguing. An insightful look at the 70s and how the events of that decade linger on through our present. Publisher Simon and Schuster provides a reading group guide on its website if you want more information. http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Eat-the-Document/Dana-Spiotta/9780743273008/reading_group_guide#rgg
As easy as the music selections were to list for Eat the Document, the menu is tougher and I find this always to be more true when listening to a book on audio versus holding a tangible object and marking it as I read. I think I remember a reference to lasagna, there's definitely a breakfast with pancakes and bacon.
Mary/Louise is actually a cook and works at several diners and so I'm sure I have missed lots of the food references. Nevertheless, at times like these, I go for the pun. So my menu will include:
Roasted root vegetables — "underground" food
As a main course, I might actually serve the pancakes and bacon. There's nothing as good as breakfast for dinner. Or make a lasagna.
Ice Cream Bombe for dessert. This is an incredibly fabulous looking dessert but relies on store-bought ice cream and pound cake. Using coffee ice cream would give a nod to the Seattle locale of Eat the Document. Here's a recipe: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchens/coffee-coconut-ice-cream-bombe-recipe.html
Eat the Document's musical references are multiple and varied:
Allman Brothers
Whiter Shade of Pale, by Procol Harum (Incidentally the best name for a rock group ever)
You could also feature Bob Dylan songs from the documentary Eat the Document, including:
I Don't Believe You
But Jason's truest love is bootlegged versions of The Beach Boys' albums with particular focus on Pet Sounds and Smile.
UPDATED: Largeheartedboy.com has solicited a playlist from Dana Spiotta — http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2007/01/book_notes_dana.html — and in her own words, here's her playlist:
Eat the Document has many music references. Much of the book takes place in the 70s, so much of the music is from that era. The contemporary part of the novel largely concerns a music-obsessed 15 year-old who is under the sway of PET SOUNDS and SMILE. The book is also about people living underground, about secret identities and so on, and the title comes from the unreleased documentary by and about Bob Dylan. Much is made in the book of "lost" albums and unpopular albums made by popular musicians.
I don't listen to music when I write, but I listen to music when I am not writing. When I am walking, driving my car, doing housework, staring into space, and generally thinking about the book. The tracks I picked are either cited in the book specifically, or they give a feel for things in the book.
1) "Our Prayer"
The Beach Boys, SMILE
When I started writing the novel, the Beach Boys' SMILE was still unreleased. Then Brian Wilson decided to put out a version. Although they are very close, I prefer the version of "Our Prayer" from my bootleg: short, heavenly, wordless. But I admit I am biased in favor of the more obscure thing.
2)"Little Hands"
"Weighted Down"
Alexander Spence, from OAR
OAR is one of my favorite albums. Skip Spence was first in the Jefferson Airplane and then in Moby Grape. OAR is his only solo album—it was made between hospital visits. One of the characters in Eat the Document discusses OAR as an example of an essential "lost" album. It is a very sad record, but quite beautiful and naked sounding. "Diana" has so much longing in the singing and the slightly dissonant guitar. "Weighted Down" is about feeling the burden of your past—a theme that resonates in my novel. If you dig that slightly off feeling, if you like Nick Drake, well, this sounds to me like Pink Moon Nick Drake combined with the Velvet Underground.
3)"Maggot Brain"
Funkadelic, from Maggot Brain
This song keeps coming up in the novel. I really tried my best to describe what listening to this song feels like. It connects the mother to the son in this odd way. The mother hears it on a commune from a white woman who apparently thinks she is black and only listens to heavy funk and black music. It unnerves the mother. There is a spookiness to it that is beyond mere sadness. I also think listening to guitar-heavy music in the middle of the woods can freak you out a little. I wrote this novel in an old farm house in central New York. Some of the music I am listing sounds downright ghostly, particularly "Maggot Brain." It also features a famous long and gorgeous guitar solo by Eddie Hazel. The story is that George Clinton told Hazel to play as though his mother just died. And so he did.
4) "The Castle"
Love, from Da Capo
"Alone Again Or"
Love, from Forever Changes
The band Love figures prominently in the novel. In fact, Arthur Lee and Bryan MacLean actually appear in a crucial "lost" film a couple of times. Anyway, this is an actual hit song, a classic, but it is obscure none the less. Arthur Lee is the proto 60s black rock-n-roller, and he doesn't seem to get his do. In any case, "Alone Again Or" was written by Bryan MacLean. It has these grand horns and kind of gentle acoustic guitar. It creates something specific in you as you listen. And if you get your hands on the first album (or DaCapo) on vinyl, you should hold it in your hands and stare at it while you listen. They had a singular style and presence.
5)"River Song"
"Hello, My Friend"
Dennis Wilson, from Pacific Ocean Blue
Dennis Wilson, from Bamboo (Or as a Beach Boys B-side, on the Sounds of Free single)
Here are three songs by Dennis Wilson. I also took the liberty of having Dennis Wilson make a cameo appearance in my book. His two solo albums are hard to find. They are the very essence of the California come-down of the mid seventies. Dennis Wilson was one of the saddest guys around, and he had a lot of drama and irony built into his short life. It is hard to resist. In my novel he puts Procol Harum on the jukebox and dances barefoot with a girl who is willing to buy him a drink. "Hello, My Friend" is about taking the long, slow, low road.
6) "If You See Her, Say Hello"
Bob Dylan, from Blood on the Tracks
"If You See Her, Say Hello" is here because he wrote a lot of songs about leaving your love (and the things you love) behind, and I may as well pick this one for the sorry days of 1975.
7) "Cabin Essence"
The Beach Boys, from SMiLE
Another one from the SMiLE bootleg—it is has that child-like Wilson radiance.
8) "Hot as Sun/Glasses/ Junk"
Paul McCartney, from McCartney
This is from Paul's home-recorded low-fi album. It creates a real after-the-fall ambiance, but it isn't about devastation like SHOOT OUT THE LIGHTS. It's more about the melancholy of dislocation. I listened to this record all the time when I was working on EAT THE DCOUMENT. It is really low-key and very anti-pop. McCartney is a bit like Brian Wilson—people are familiar with their perfect pop songs and melodies, and they don't get credit for some of the formal experiments that made them rebellious in their way. The segues and juxtapositions on this album are as interesting as the songs.
9) "The Bridge"
Neil Young, from Time Fades Away
Neil Young sort of belongs in my novel even though he isn't there. I could pick any of a dozen Neil Young songs, but I thought I should pick an "unreleased" song. A ballad, because I'm not a rock anthem fan. I do love Young's songs about lonely love—or being lonely inside your life—much more than the ones about the culture at large.
10) "I Shall Be Released"
Gram Parsons/ Flying Burrito Brothers, from Farther Along
Okay, we end with a snippet of a version of Dylan's classic song sung by the wistful-voiced Gram when he was in the Flying Burrito Brothers. I picked this, although it isn't in my book, because it is beautiful and incomplete (it breaks off half-way through), because we all can imagine what might have been—and we should try—and because we all shall be released, which is a consolation of a kind.
Mary/Louise: Mary describes herself as wispy, forgettable. It would be a trick to play someone 20 and the same actor play her as a 45 year old mom. Anne Hathaway did a pretty good job of it in Brokeback Mountain. I'm thinking Kiernan Shipka has the right vibe for a young Mary, but not sure about the older one.
Bobby: Lenny Kravitz.
Jason: Jack Kilmer maybe? Struggling with this one.
Henry: Steve Buscemi
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Reading for the Dog Days of Summer
August 18, 2016 by Pamela Dae
It's hot. Hot hot hot everywhere. Too hot to do anything but sit by a pool with your favorite canine companion and read a book. Might as well read about a dog! or two!
Some of my favorite novels star dogs. And speaking of star dogs:
The Dog Stars, by Peter Heller haunts me to this day. It's not actually about a dog, but about a post-apocalyptic world where most everyone has died of an influenza. It's gorgeously written, stirring, and truly deeply madly sad.
daeandwrite featured The Dog Stars in September, 2014. Here's the link for a menu and music and more information: https://daeandwrite.wordpress.com/2014/09/04/the-dog-stars-by-peter-heller/
The Tale of Edgar Sawtelle, by David Wroblewski, is another absolutely heartbreakingly beautiful book of prose. Edgar Sawtelle is a child born mute; Almondine is his constant companion, interpreter, guide. She's the best friend everyone wants. I love this book, though it is again, very very sad.
In the dog days of August, 2015, daeandwrite featured The Tale of Edgar Sawtelle, with menu, music and a movie cast: https://daeandwrite.wordpress.com/2015/08/26/a-dogs-tail-the-story-of-edgar-sawtelle-by-david-wroblewski/
The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein. Oh wow. The dog is the narrator. And what a narrative voice. Brilliant, this book is. Enzo, the dog, is coach, grief counselor, and above all, extra human.
Since March of 2014, when daeandwrite first posted a review of The Art of Racing in the Rain, noting that Patrick Dempsey had signed on to play the human race car driver in Enzo's life, Disney has bought the rights to make the movie and Dempsey is no longer involved according to the Hollywood Reporter: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-picks-up-canine-best-858374. Here's my original post, with menu and music choices for your book club: https://daeandwrite.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/vacation-my-dogs-life/
A Dog's Purpose, by Bruce Cameron, is another weeper. They all are! Yikes and yet I love
them all! Again narrated from the dog's point of view, A Dog's Purpose features one special dog whose soul mate is his human. One of my book club's favorite reads ever.
An update to my original post regarding the movie — it's expected out in 2017 with Bradley Cooper voicing the dog and Lasse Hallstrom directing. Here's the original post: https://daeandwrite.wordpress.com/2015/02/18/a-dogs-purpose-is-apparently-to-make-me-cry/
A few other ideas, books I haven't reviewed but fit our theme:
Marley & Me, John Grogan (If there is anyone on planet Earth who hasn't read it yet)
Cujo, Stephen King
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Happy Reading & Stay Cool!
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Emma, A Modern Retelling by Alexander McCall Smith
As much as I love Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet — and particularly Mr. Darcy — it may very well be, if I am quite honest, that I, myself, have more in common with Emma Woodhouse. Miss Austen's Emma is — a "spoilt, self-deluded" (The Guardian), "altruistic, but self-absorbed" (Time), controlling, opinionated, and kind (Me) young woman living in a small rural community with her chronically-neurotic, hypochondriac father. I like Emma. And despite her penchant for getting in her own way, or perhaps because of it, I find Emma quite charming.
I feel I must not be alone. "Emma" has ranked in the top five of girl's names bestowed at birth in the United States since 2002. However, that is much more likely to the birth of Emma Geller Green on April 4, 2002, to Ross and Rachel of Friends. But where did they get the name? I ask you. (Friends-o-philes know that Monica chose the name first and Rachel stole it. But Monica must've gotten it from Miss Austen!)
As part of HarperCollins' Austen Project, where modern writers have been tasked with rewriting Jane Austen's novels, The Number One Ladies' Detective Agency author Alexander McCall Smith has rewritten Emma. This Emma, A Modern Retelling is the fourth of the Austen Project novels released, but only the second I've read. Eligible!, by Curtis Sittenfeld, is most recent and I loved it. In fact, my book club is reading Eligible! on my recommendation this month. Here's the link to my review of Eligible! https://daeandwrite.wordpress.com/2016/07/17/eligible-by-curtis-sittenfeld/
Emma, The Modern Retelling, treads quite softly on Austen's hallowed ground. Really, all that Smith has changed significantly is the century. Emma herself, living alone with her father, is as recognizable as a beloved teddy bear. George Knightley is his same lovable self, though a bit reticent; Harriet Smith, Philip Elton, Jane Fairfax, Frank Churchill. All is so much the same, one is quite shocked when a MiniCooper appears. Even Emma's slight of Miss Bates finds a modernish interpretation:
Then there was Miss Bates. Emma felt a sudden tug of conscience and told herself that she must make more of an effort with Miss Bates; she must give her a bit more of her time. It would be easy enough; all she had to do was to call on her now and then – Miss Bates was always in – and give her a present of those violet creams that she liked so much but obviously could no longer afford. Miss Bates, she assumed, divided her life between the violet-cream days – before she was an unsuccessful Lloyd's Name – and the days in which violet creams were just a distant memory. Lloyd's Names had suffered in many different ways – being deprived of violet creams was just one way in which financial disaster brought hardship. Poor Miss Bates – and there she was sitting next to James, who was being so kind to her, as he was to everybody, whatever his or her failings.
I enjoyed McCall Smith's Emma . . . but not as much as I enjoy reading and rereading Miss Austen's original. Indeed, at the conclusion of the "Modern Retelling," I wondered what the point of it was? There were no updates to plot, character, setting and even the minor changes to things like occupation and schooling (and a sperm donor in lieu of illegitimacy) did not have any significant impact. In her review for the New York Times, Leah Price said:
McCall Smith's "Emma," in contrast, reads like a too literal translation. His reluctance to alter now anachronistic details forces him to spend pages explaining why, in an age of universal schooling, Emma would have a governess, and why, at a time when overscheduling afflicts even the erstwhile leisure class, she wouldn't have a job.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/31/books/review/emma-a-modern-retelling-by-alexander-mccall-smith.html
Emma, A Modern Retelling, is an easy read, enjoyable. But unlike Curtis Sittenfeld's Eligible! which gives Pride & Prejudice a true modernity, McCall Smith's Emma doesn't have much point.
For information on the other Austen rewrites: http://www.boroughpress.co.uk/?s=Austen+
McCall Smith provides several menus from which to choose for your book club.
"Parma ham laid out on a plate with asparagus spears and quails' eggs" served at Emma's first memorable dinner party.
Melton Mowbray pies — which is, according Wikipedia, made from "uncured meat, grey in colour when cooked; the meat is chopped, rather than minced. The pie is made with a hand-formed crust, giving the pie a slightly irregular shape after baking. As the pies are baked free-standing, the sides bow outwards, rather than being vertical as with mould-baked pies." Personally, I would skip those.
The Oak Tree Inn's blackboard lunch menu of "potted shrimps, steak and kidney pie, sticky toffee pudding."
And of course, the violet creams, Emma's gift to Miss Bates. Available for order from Fortnum & Mason or on Amazon. Or if you are a courageous candy-maker, here's a recipe link: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/violet-creams.
Emma is playing Erik Satie's Gymnopedies on the piano when George Knightley arrives for a visit with Mr. Woodhouse. Mr. Woodhouse describes the music — in one of my favorite lines in the book — as "the sort of thing a spider would play if spiders played the piano."
She also plays Beethoven's Fur Elise.
And Jane Fairfax is, of course, even more of a talented pianist. She is compared to Bach.
Emma — Felicity Jones might make a fine Emma. Or Emma Watson.
Harriet Smith — Imogene Poots
Jane Fairfax — Scarlett Byrne
George Knightley — Henry Cavill
Philip Elton — Alex Pettyfer
Frank Churchill — Sam Claflin
So there you have it. Read Emma one way or another.
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Earlier today, Sony listed where people will be able to watch the company's E3 press conference, and what announced games it'll be bringing to its E3 booth. Now, if you'd rather use your PlayStation 4 to watch the event live, as opposed to your PC, laptop, mobile phone or tablet, then Sony has you covered, too.
Over on the Official PlayStation Blog, Sony announced that the PS4 E3 2014 app can now be downloaded right this very moment. Through the app, people will be able to watch the Sony press conference live via the PS4. Once the show officially starts on June 10 at 12 p.m. PDT, PlayStation fans will be able to check out trailers, and screenshots from Sony's booth. Also of note, the app will also be let fans "see some other things" Sony will be unveiling, and even give an overview of services like PlayStation Now and PlayStation Plus.
Possibly the coolest part of the app aside from letting you watch the presser on your PS4 is that you'll be able to unlock "perks" by using it. There will be gold and silver challenges fans can complete in the app that will grant you up to 250 Sony Rewards points, which will be available to unlock until June 24. In addition to that, other perks such as an Amazon Prime 30-day trial, and a 30-day trial for Music Unlimited is also in the cards. But the biggest incentive could very well be a PlayStation Now Private Beta invite. Each day, Sony will be handing out 6,000 of the invites and the first ones to log in early will get one.
You can download the app here if you wish. I admit, this is a rather nice move from Sony. But don't forget, if you want the best coverage at E3, make sure to check PSLS as we'll have our team on the show floor giving you the latest updates.
For more Sony E3 awesomeness, make sure to read our Best Sony E3 Moments feature to get you in the mood come this Monday.


It turns out that the real plan for Haiti's northeastern region — especially the Caracol Bay area — is one that was hatched by Canadian mining corporations, with the U.S. and South Korean sweatshop zone being a side project and distraction. If this mining plan is given a green light while Haiti is under foreign occupation, it will permanently strip the country of much of its mineral, cultural, and ecological wealth.
Dominican Republic Pueblo Viejo mine on August 7, 2009; one would be hard put to find deforestation due to charcoal production that looks quite as bad as this (Credit: Mining Journal).
In a recent interview with Canada's Financial Post, Majescor Resources Inc. CEO Dan Hachey was effusive about Michel Martelly's installment as president because he expects Martelly's policy of mimicking the Dominican Republic (DR) to be a boon to the mining sector.
"thirty years ago, there was no mining sector to speak of in the Dominican Republic….
"In that short period of time they've seen the development of the Pueblo Viejo Project [of Barrick and Goldcorp's], which is one of the world's largest gold deposits — and is pretty much a neighbour of ours.
This glowing picture omits the fact that Barrick and Goldcorp have come under strong popular opposition in the DR. In a country where 20% of the population lacks access to drinking water, these companies are accused of polluting 2,500 cubic meters of water per hour with the vast quantities of cyanide needed to process 24,000 tons of ore a day by opencast (or open-pit) mining. Open-pit mining is banned by the European Union. Activists in the DR have joined forces with a broader group called Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de América Latina (OCMAL) that has launched a campaign to end this practice in the region.
There is great concern that the DR's biggest water reservoir, which is close to the mining operations, is continuously at risk of cyanide contamination, since stories of spills and massive fish die offs caused by mining companies are legion. Barrick and Goldcorp have also been accused of dynamiting mountains and destroying Taino Indian archaelogical sites.
SOMINE is an acronym for Société Minière du Nord-Est S.A. and is described in the mineral trade sheets as a "Haitian affiliate mining company." It is 66.4% owned by Majescor, with the rest being owned by Haiti's elite. Majescor is still a relatively small company that conducts mineral surveys. The SOMINE property is surrounded by other mining properties owned jointly by Majescor and much larger concerns like Eurasian Minerals and Newmont Mining. Once Majescor's surveys are complete, it plans to find a big partner, like Barrick, Eurasian, or Newmont to handle the extractive part of the project.
"the 1970s by the UN Development Program, with some very good results [but the project was not pursued, then] there was a feasibility study done by the Germans [Bundesanstalt fur Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR)] in 1980, and there was further drilling done in the 1990s by Canadian junior [mining companies]. recalled Hachey.
During the 1980′s, the area was explored again by the UNDP and also surveyed by the French Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minière (BRGM), both of which reported finding only copper.
The official story is that an abundance of copper had until recently obscured the fact that the area's ore is also rich in silver and gold, and this was discovered from Majescor's recent prospects of Douvray, Blondin and Faille-B. However, the story could just as well be that the mining executives were biding their time and waiting for a "stable" non-nationalistic government to take effect before initiating their projects.
The mineral rights to the area were assigned to SOMINE under a Mining Convention executed on May 5, 2005 (valid until March 9, 2020) between this company and the post-Aristide coup government. After this, it did not take long for Haiti's mountains to start to glitter. For example, an exploration of the Faille-B prospect in 2007 found a gold vein that averaged 42.7 grams of gold per ton of ore (g/t) over 6 meters, including values of 107.5 g/t of gold over one meter.
0.3% copper over 12 meters, including 0.61% copper over 1.5 meters; 154 grams of silver per ton (g/t) over 12 meters, including 869 g/t silver over 1.5 meters.
16.9 g/t silver over 113 meters, including 6.2 g/t silver over 1.5 meters; 0.43% copper over 113 meters, including 4.44% copper over 1.5 meters.
277 g/t silver over 13.5 meters, including 1,428 g/t silver over 1.5 meters; 0.18% copper over 13.5 meters, including 0.52% copper over 1.5 meters; 0.04 g/t gold over 13.5 meters, including 0.04 g/t gold over 1.5 meters.
These highly concentrated deposits of copper, silver and gold should reasonably represent a new found wealth for Haiti at a time of dire need of resources for the country's reconstruction. But if the DR is to serve as an example, Haiti will not benefit from its minerals. In the DR, Barrick owns 60% of the Pueblo Viejo gold mine and Goldcorp Inc. owns the remaining 40%. To get a sense of the scale of the greed, one need only consider that currently the Pueblo Viejo mine is slated to produce one million ounces of gold per year at a cost of only US$20-50/oz, making it one of the lowest-cost gold mines in the world.
"What we're most excited about is that we found some silver which was never really realized before. It's the first silver discovery in Haiti.
"Part of the reason why it was never really discovered was that historically there was so much copper prevalent — there's a lot of outcropping at surface. The people who did the work before did not do much testing, even for gold.
only 15 kilometres from the SOMINE property and near Cap-Haïtien.
This first official announcement of a deep-water port for Caracol explains in part why there has been no effort to mitigate the ecological effects of the massive free-trade (sweatshop) zone inaugurated in March 2012 in that area: the textile factories' contributions to the degradation of Caracol Bay should be trivial compared to the damage from opencast gold mining and construction of a deep-water port.
Monday May 7, 2012 (Le Matin) Martelly announces that the construction of a port will soon start in Fort-Liberte [near Caracol], in the Northeast. The port will cost U.S $179 million and is supposed to be "built with the U.S. government's help," but it will likely be entirely owned by U.S. concerns.


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Please note: Business Bay is one of the 60 major communities in freehold Dubai where Lookup.ae reports quarterly prices. We track performance of studio, 1 and 2 bedroom apartments in Business Bay and this data can be viewed in more detail under this section's Transaction Prices and Historic Data sections. The price data in this section does not include Executive Towers, a major project also within Business Bay but reported separately because of its different characteristics.
The area of Business Bay is approximately 64 million sq. ft. and it stretches from Sheikh Zayed Road upto Al Khail Road. The Business Bay master-plan has an allocation of up-to 250 building plots.
In 2005, the master developer, Dubai Properties Group started selling plots in Business Bay to private developers for development. Plots in Business Bay have different uses: residential, commercial, hospitality and mixed-use. Certain plots were held by Dubai Properties Group where they launched their own projects such as Executive Towers and Vision Tower.
The vision of Business Bay is to be the Central Business District of Dubai. The master-developer, Dubai Properties, which is a part of Dubai Holding - sold plots to private investors and developers who in turn have developed and continue to build various types of projects.
When the Global financial crisis hit Dubai in late 2008, hardly any project in Business Bay was yet to be delivered. Many projects were in advanced stages of construction, while others had already launched but were yet to get off-ground. Many ambitious developments were eventually shelved and construction on existing developments slowed down tremendously.
In late 2009 and 2010, we began seeing the first projects handing over in Business Bay, this included The One by Omniyat, Silver Tower and the Executive Towers. The delivery of Executive Towers in 2010 helped revitalize the area and through 2011 and 2012, we saw a number of delivered projects.
The real estate market in Dubai started reviving in a major way in 2012. By this time, many investors had entered the market to propel stalled projects. Many projects which were previously on-hold received capital injections and were re-launched with various types of prices and payment plans.
Many new developments contain hotel serviced apartments, which in 2013 and 2014 were a hot segment of the property market.
As of Q4 2015, there are 28 ready apartment buildings/complexes in Business Bay, 10 of which are part of the Executive Towers. The Executive Towers is by far the most well known and popular residential development in the community and makes up for the majority of transaction activity in both the sale and rental market. The rest of the apartment buildings are scattered across the community and predominantly are located on the other side of the Canal which cuts through Business Bay. Most of the residential buildings in the community are developed by Dubai Properties, Deyaar and Damac.
Most of the office buildings in Business Bay are Grade B quality. A major drawback of office supply in Business Bay and in the Dubai in general is the fact that they have STRATA ownership - which is a drawback for office buildings when viewed from global best practices. Most developers sell office space at the time of launching a project. Therefore, by the time a building is ready, there are hundreds of owners who have purchased various sizes of office space. These type of buildings are not attractive for big business, especially the International Corporations who look for larger spaces in quality buildings with well structured management in place.
The highest quality office buildings in Business Bay are considered to be the ones developed by Ominiyat (Bayswater, The One, Binary Tower). Other quality office buildings include The Oberoi, Bay Square, Vision Tower, The Bay Gate and Al Manara Tower.
As of Q4 2015, there are 39 ready buildings in Business Bay which have office space. There are another 12 office buildings which are under-construction.
The JW Marriott, The Oberoi and the Taj Hotel are the major hotels in Business Bay. There are also a handful of ready serviced hotel apartment projects that have recently been delivered, all by Damac Properties (Capital Bay, Vogue, Cour Jardin).
Since 2013, a number of hotel serviced apartment projects have been launched/re-launched in the community - there are at least 9 such projects currently under-construction (examples include the Atria by Deyaar, Park Lane, Damac Towers by Paramount, Lillian Towers, The Opus, Bay's Edge, etc.
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3. Executive Towers has a separate section on Lookup.ae and prices of Executive Towers have not been included in this section (Business Bay). We have done this because Executive Towers has different characteristics than the rest of Business Bay residential. Its location is exceptional but it also has larger apartment sizes which sell cheaper psf (per sq. ft.) than other properties in Business Bay. Including Executive Tower prices along with rest of Business Bay residential skews the results and doesn't give us a better understanding of what is actually happening in the community in terms of transactions.
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6. Quality across Business Bay falls in between the mid-end & high-end category. Business Bay is unlike Downtown or Dubai Marina, where it is easier to classify buildings by quality and then see distinct patterns in transaction values. In Business Bay, we have a number of buildings but prices psf consistently fall in the same range for residential towers regardless of classification. Only a few residential buildings have really differentiated themselves, examples are the Bay Square, Churchill Residence and Ubora Tower - these buildings either offer location or architecture prominence.
7. Price data shown does not include hotel serviced apartments which is a market that has done quite well in the area since 2013.
Fantastic location. Right off Sheikh Zayed Road, bordreing the luxurious Downtown Burj Dubai area, close to DIFC and the airport.
The buildings in Business Bay have some of the best architecture (in terms of uniqueness) of any community in Dubai.
Mixed use - will emerge as the main business district of the city regardless of challenges.
The first signs of retail are emerging along the canal that cuts through Business Bay. Over the next 3 - 5 years, we will see a lot of life added to the community through retail, improved infrastructure and greenery.
We expect a gradual shift from older business districts like Deira and Bur Dubai towards Business Bay as affordability grows (with additional supply) and new pipeline is delivered.
Business Bay is still in an emerging phase; i.e. roadworks, beautification and retail gradually taking place (pace of this has increased since 2015).
Still a number of vacant plots; there will be pockets of construction in this community for many years to come. However, half of Business Bay, with frontage along SZR has probably entered the maturity stage.
A lot of commercial property being built or that has been delivered in Business Bay is not suitable for International corporations due to the prevalence of STRATA Owneship. I.e. these type of clients prefer to lease space in quality buildings managed by one group rather than those buildings that were sold out at piece meal at launch.
A large part of Business Bay actually has frontage along Al Khail Road and therefore a metro station to cater to that area will also be important in the future.
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Un phénomène paravolcanique se dit de tout phénomène géologique actif indirectement lié au volcanisme et à l'activité volcanique.

La plupart des phénomènes paravolcaniques sont d'ordre géothermique, comme les geysers, les sources chaudes, les mares de boue et les mofettes. D'autres phénomènes, comme les fumerolles et les solfatares, en font partie.

Le cryovolcanisme, n'étant pas considéré comme un véritable volcanisme à part entière, fait partie des phénomènes paravolcaniques.

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Fumerolles et solfatares

Les fumerolles sont des fissures et des trous d'où s'échappent des émanations de gaz volcaniques, comme le soufre, le dioxyde de carbone et la vapeur d'eau. Généralement, des dépôts de soufre se créent autour de la fumerolle. On appelle aussi solfatare des fumerolles très soufrées.

Sources chaudes

On appelle source chaude toute source géothermique chaude. généralement, les sources chaudes sont provoquées par l'activité volcanique. La nappe phréatique est chauffée par la chambre magmatique, ce qui crée des sources d'eau chaude surchauffée, qui peuvent aller de  à plus de .

Geysers

Les geysers sont des émanations d'eau surchauffée qui jaillissent généralement par intermittence. Lorsque des gaz remontent par la nappe phréatique surchauffée, elle exerce une pression sur le conduit extérieur qui empêche l'eau de la nappe de bouillir. Lorsque les conditions d'ébullition explosives le permettent (BLEVE), l'eau et la vapeur jaillissent brutalement par le conduit de la cheminée de l'édifice et créent une large colonne d'eau et de vapeur qui peut jaillir pendant plusieurs minutes.On parle d'instabilité geyser qui provoque le phénomène.

Mares de boue

Une mare de boue est un type de source d'eau chaude ou de fumerolle, brassant des sédiments (argile d'origine volcanique, oxyde de fer, soufre...) à sa surface, et caractérisée par de perpétuelles remontées de bulles de gaz à sa surface.

Volcans de boue

Les volcans de boues sont des édifices géologiques ressemblant à des volcans et qui expulsent du gaz carbonique avec de la boue brûlante. Ce sont des formations très rares qui peuvent se trouver dans des zones d'activité volcanique active ou éteinte.

Mofettes

Les mofettes sont généralement des fissures et des trous d'origine volcaniques d'où s'échappent du gaz carbonique. Parfois, les mofettes brassent des sédiments à leur surface. Des mofettes peuvent se dissimuler au fond de certains lacs, comme le lac Nyos, ou dans les fonds marins, comme les monts hydrothermaux. (Voir plus bas : éruption limnique.)

Hornitos

Les hornitos sont des cônes volcaniques de dégazage, créés lors de retombées de fragments de lave incandescents entre eux.

Maars

Les maars sont des cratères d'origine volcanique très profonds, créés lors du contact entre une poche magmatique et une nappe phréatique. Ils sont le plus souvent comblés par un lac.

Lacs acides

Les lacs acides sont des lacs créés lors du recueillement d'eau de pluie ou de neige qui comblent les cratères de certains volcans actifs. Très acides, ce sont des lacs d'acide sulfurique qui connaissent un pH de 4 à 0.

Monts hydrothermaux

Les monts hydrothermaux sont des cheminées d'origine volcanique qui se situent dans des zones de dorsales océaniques ou des points chauds, au fond de l'océan. Ils émettent des gaz sulfureux très chauds. Il existe deux types de fumeurs : les fumeurs noirs, les plus abondants, et les fumeurs blancs, plus froids.

Ces phénomènes sont connus pour abriter une vie océanique unique, qui dépend des gaz des cheminées pour vivre. On y compte notamment les pogonophores, dont les plus connus sont les vers tubicoles géants sans bouche Riftia pachyptila.

Cryovolcanisme

On appelle cryovolcanisme tout volcanisme extraterrestre rejetant des matériaux glacés (gaz, azote...) et qui se trouvent dans des satellites naturels glacés des planètes gazeuses.

Éruption limnique

Une éruption limnique consiste en un brusque dégagement de dioxyde de carbone à partir d'un lac sursaturé en ce gaz. Le volcanisme peut intervenir directement dans la saturation du lac, mais peut surtout être un déclencheur de l'éruption.

Phénomène volcanique


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Pimple's Progress: Fred Evans, Britain's First Film Comedy Star (Paperback)
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In 1915, British moviegoers voted Fred Evans second only to Charles Chaplin as their favorite film comedian. Appearing as the roguish and anarchic ""Pimple,"" Fred made 200 silent movies between 1910 and 1922, running amok in frantic chases and sending-up current events and fashions. With a rich family heritage in pantomime and music hall, Evans introduced a satirical approach to filmmaking, frequently lampooning the recently introduced feature films. Pimple's burlesques deflated the seriousness of such productions, providing subversive support for audiences adjusting to the the new form. But continual mockery of themes, acting styles and film techniques did not endear him to all. Changing public tastes and industry disapproval eventually resulted in an end to Evans' screen appearances and a return to the stage. As Evans has been almost entirely sidelined by film historians, this is the first book-length biography of him. It places Evans not only in a film context but within the wider entertainment and social perspectives of his time. Amongst topics discussed are the beginnings of the star system, war propaganda, the growth of film fandom and concerns about the influence of cinema on children.
Barry Anthony is a film and theater historian living in London. Over the last 30 years he has written several books and magazine articles about social history, the visual arts and popular entertainment.
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