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Princess Holy Aura – Chapter 30
by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 27, 2017 | Snippets, SpoorSnippet | 1 comment
Chapter 30.
Silvertail felt the fur rising on his back even before his more conscious senses recognized the surge in power from within the building that the girls had run into. Oh, no, Lemuria's Memory, no…
It was the merest flicker of motion, a motion only eyes like his own could have seen, but he knew instantly that the worst scenario was now upon them. A Mirrortaint was now free, and in a crowd . . . a crowd whose emotions and lifeforce would not only feed it, but mask it.
If only I had been able to follow them, perhaps I would at least be able to recognize the creature, know the form it has taken. But that hadn't been possible; as Trayne Owen he had dropped the girls off, and been watching from beneath the bleachers as Silvertail. A white rat could not in any way keep up with sprinting humans, even if it didn't care whether it was seen.
How could it have escaped into the world so soon? It must have been active in the school longer than they had thought. Either Cordelia was making use of its powers much longer, or she brought it to the mirror I saw much earlier, perhaps near the beginning of the school year.
But analyzing the past would have to wait. The tyrpiglynt was already here, among the people. The creatures were intelligent, and capable of subtlety; this thing would not be found so easily as a shoggoth or the stalker-monster. It would wander through this crowd, sensing desires, offering in veiled words to grant those desires that struck its fancy as either corrupt or likely to lead to chaos, looking perhaps for a partner as well as tool. Silvertail scuttled along under the bleachers, sniffing, listening, trying to sense anything that indicated the creature's presence.
Attuned as he was to the particular magical signature, he sensed the Apocalypse Maidens' transformation. If only I could establish my telepathic link with them! The link would work at considerable distances after it was established, but to make the link to begin with required that he be either very nearby, or within direct sight of the Maiden. At the moment, Silvertail remained on his own.
He scuttled around the bleachers, listening, sniffing, sensing. It will not have left. There are so many opportunities. It will be looking for the best chance to sow chaos, to encourage dark fantasies, to trigger dangerous events, perhaps to find a person more fit to be an ally than Cordelia. It was slightly less noisy now, with the cheerleaders performing their halftime routines; there were more conversations but less of the coordinated roars of the crowd during the actual game. Still, he was surrounded by hundreds of people talking loudly on a hundred different subjects. If he didn't get lucky . . .
". . . a wish?"
No human could possibly have heard the words, or distinguished them from the babel of background noises; but rat senses enhanced and filtered by both magic and thousands of years of experience helped. Silvertail froze, then turned his head, letting the highly directional ears focus the sound more clearly.
"Within reason, yes." The voice was unfamiliar, but Silvertail knew by the undertones that this had to be the tyrpiglynt. "I — "
The laugh was deep — this was an adult man. A father or possibly one of the teachers, then. "What a bunch of crap." The overtones of the man's voice were amused, yet there was a faint touch of . . . hope? Desire? The words of a Mirrortaint are very hard to ignore. It speaks with magic that works on the level of your subconscious; hypnotic, suggestive. "If you're so bright, then I wish . . . you'd grant me what I want right now."
Silvertail couldn't see the two yet, but he could easily imagine the smile. "Based on what I see I can guess what you want. Do you give me permission to grant that wish?"
"Sure, magic-boy, go for it, then after it doesn't work, go bother someone else."
Now Silvertail felt the magic, activated not ten feet from him. There! Yes, right there, whoever's seated in the —
A roar from the crowd, but not like a cheer. Some of it was gasps, others appreciative whistles, others shouts of "Oh my God!" In the distance he thought he heard a commotion on the field, girls Holly's age angered or distressed.
"Holy shit," the unknown man's voice said. "What a show. You did that?"
A smug tone. "I did. Was that not what you wished?"
"Sure as hell was."
The noises on the field and from the announcement finally told Silvertail — indirectly — what had happened, made even clearer as several girls were hustled off the field wrapped in coats. That salacious monster. But that was a Mirrortaint's specialty, working with suppressed or hidden desires, and in this society such desires were terribly dangerous. And rightly so.
The tyrpiglynt was focused on its prey — or possible partner — now. Silvertail set his tiny jaw. I will at least minimize what damage you have done.
He visualized the entire field, the people, the geometry, and then touched on the hidden geometry of symbols he had been carefully burying about the school for weeks. One set of symbols created a pentagram around the stadium, focusing his power. He laid out the spell's parameters precisely, then cast it outward, speaking the ancient phrases as quietly as he could.
Immediately he heard a momentary catch in the creature's conversation, but he was certain the thing did not know what direction the magic it sensed came from; as it resonated and was amplified by the pentacle the real power would seem to come from all directions.
As for the effect . . .
"Damn. My camera must've glitched. None of these pics are in focus!"
He allowed himself an instant's satisfied grin. He had been honing his ability to interfere with electronic devices for decades, and specifically to locate and edit particular images from any imaging systems. This was of course mainly to prevent pictures of either himself or the Apocalypse Maidens from being recorded, but it applied to anything he chose to modify. Your memories I cannot touch, but those girls' privacy will not be violated repeatedly, nor transmitted to the world.
But now he had to act swiftly. The tyrpiglynt would undoubtedly guess what had happened, and more importantly had found someone very open and amenable to its peculiar talents. It would not be long before it was granting even more dangerous and vile requests . . . and hunting down the source of interference.
With the unexpected events on the field, the halftime had been cut short, and the teams were now returning to the field. This is no better. With the emotions such a contest engenders, the Mirrortaint will be able to turn a simple sports contest into something more closely resembling the worst gladiatorial arena.
Princesses Holy Aura and Radiance Blaze had not yet emerged from the school. Complications must have happened if they have not yet pursued the monster outside. I must go, be ready to advise them.
As he bounded toward the school, his ears caught another voice, a man's, ahead of him. "Where is she? Why wasn't she on the field?"
"I don't know, Mr. Ingemar," a girl's voice answered. "She was really upset about something, not even into our routines. Last I saw she ran into the school, but that was a while ago."
Silvertail could feel the man's worry, the concern over his daughter, and it echoed, resonated within him as he recalled his terror over what his own Aureline was to face.
And the combination of the Mirrortaint's sudden release with a father's worry suddenly clicked, and Silvertail knew what had happened, and — just possibly — how he could fix it.
He transformed to Trayne Owen as he emerged from the shadow of the bleachers, caught up with Mr. Ingemar as he was heading for the school. "Mr. Ingemar, I know where your daughter is . . ."
Terranovan	on October 29, 2017 at 3:47 PM
I just now realized that I may have spoken too soon about Cordy as an Apocalypse Maiden – the invocation might sound a little like a blank check, and Cordy has good reason to be leery of those now. Still would be plausible either way.


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About Colombo
Colombo is the largest city and the commercial capital of Sri Lanka. It is one of the holiday destinations that you must add to your travel list. It is also known for its eclectic dining scene and its nightlife. It is also a great place to shop for clothes, wedding invitations and indulge in spa treatments. Sri Lanka is also known for its wildlife and elephant sanctuaries. It is the perfect place to go to if you want to club your luxurious, relaxing holiday plans with adventures. You can either volunteer to help out at an Elephant Sanctuary or sign up for a walking tour. Do try the ayurvedic spas in the city to relieve yourself of all the stress. You can book a hotel in Colombo at an affordable price. While it is not exactly the cheapest holiday destination in Asia, it is worth every money spent. The city is also known for its temples and no matter which religion you follow, you will find a temple of your choice of deity/religion here.
Best Time to Visit Colombo
January to March is ideal for taking off to Colombo on a trip since they are the driest months of the year. The best season to visit, however, is winter from November to March. Winters are quite chilly, and it is the best time to go sightseeing, too. The rainfall does not affect any of your sightseeing plans or any other outdoor activities. It is also an ideal time to head to the beaches and indulges in a few water activities. Colombo also has a very vibrant nightlife that is best experienced in winter when there is barely any rainfall. You can book a hotel in Colombo that is either close to the beach or the nightclubs, depending on how you intend to spend your holiday. The temperature ranges from 25 to 30 degree Celsius. January to March is the high tourist season in Colombo, and a lot of attractions will be filled with tourists. Colombo is also filled with festive spirit during these months as they celebrate festivals like Thai Pongal, Independence Day of Sri Lanka, New Year and Duruthu Perahera Festival. Make sure you book your flight tickets to Colombo well in advance if you are on a budget. If you are planning to go to Colombo on your honeymoon, this is the best time to go.
Colombo experiences summer from May to October, and it is considered as an off-season for tourists. Not only is it unbearably hot in the city, but it is also quite humid, so much that you won't feel like stepping out of your hotel at all. The temperature ranges from 28 to 32 degrees and will only make you uncomfortable. However, since it is offseason, you will get great flight deals to Colombo online. It also rains during this season and might lead to a hailstorm sometimes. If you are not an outdoorsy person and prefer indoor activities, this might be the best time for you to head to Colombo. You will also get really good hotels at a reasonable price during this time since it is offseason and the demand is low. You can sip cocktails by the pool in your hotel or indulge in relaxing spa treatments. You can also explore the Pettah market during this time without being hassled by the tourist crowd. It starts raining from May to August, and it rains intermittently in September and October. The temperature ranges around 28 degree Celsius during this time.
Places to Visit in Colombo
Galle Face Green is a popular beach park in Colombo that you can visit. You can also indulge in a lot of water activities at the beach. Pettah Market is another popular destination where you can go on a shopping spree and walk away with high-end luxury items at the lowest prices. Fort-Colombo is an important tourist attraction in the capital of Sri Lanka. It is the political and cultural heritage of the country and is also known for its vibrant nightlife. A major part is shut because of the turbulence caused by the Civil War. You will also find a lot of casinos here. The National Museum of Colombo is the largest one in Sri Lanka. It was founded by the British Governor of Ceylon from 1872 to 1877, William Henry Gregory. You will find artwork that dates back to the British Colonial and Portuguese era, along with a lot of artefacts. The Gangaramaya temple is famous for its blend of culture and architectural styles from Sri Lanka, Thailand, Chinese and India. It was built in the 19th century and is a place of Buddhist worship and learning. Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara is another Buddhist temple that was built in the 5th century, which holds a lot of historical importance. The temple sees a lot of tourists and devotees during the Duruthu Maha Perehera every January and on full moon days of every month. The paintings and sculptures in the temple will tell you tales from Lord Buddha's life and the Jataka Tales.
Beira Lake is another popular landmark in the city where you can head to if you want to relax and soak in the beautiful views. It is also a highly recommended place for couples to head to in Colombo. Colombo Zoo also called the National Zoological Garden of Sri Lanka, houses over 300 different species of animals, birds, marine life and reptiles from all over the world. Casino Marina started in 2013 and is usually filled with elite tourists in the evenings. You can gamble away till wee hours of the night or enjoy the view of the sea from here. World Trade Centre is one of the most famous colonial buildings that you will find in the Old Fort area. St Lucia's Cathedral got its name after the saint martyr, St Lucia, who is believed to have protected everyone with eye problems in Colombo. It was built in 1760, and the Gothic style architecture draws tourists to it every year. Panadura and Crow Island Beaches are quite popular in the city and the best spots to indulge in recreational activities. You will find a lot of beach parks and temples in the city that are worth a visit.
Sign up for a city tour of Colombo and indulge in all the activities that come with your tour package. You can also get a customised tour of places that are of interest to you and activities that you have listed in your itinerary. Sri Lanka is known for its seafood and treating yourself to fresh seafood at Mt Lavinia Beach is highly recommended. While you can always rent a taxi for the entire day to get around the city, you can also enjoy a tuk-tuk ride, which is a popular way for locals to get around the city. Pettah Market, Good Market, Paradise Road are some of the popular places in the city for you to go on a shopping spree. You can also indulge in rejuvenating massage therapies at the spas in Colombo. The city also offers scuba diving at certain locations. If you want to give water sports a try, make sure you try this one. Most beaches also have boating, surfing and other water activities for you to try.
Food and Restaurants in Colombo
Seafood, especially prawns, is popular in Colombo since it is a coastal city. Curry Leaf and Seafood's Cove are some of the popular restaurants for you to binge on seafood or other types of meat. The city also has a lot of Indian restaurants; a lot of them have a vegetarian menu, too. Spice Coast is known for its biryani, Chana's for delicious North Indian cuisine and Shanmugas for its vegetarian menu. While you are trying seafood in the city, make sure you also try the chilli crabs. Paradise Road Gallery Cafe is a lovely cafe that is set in a walled garden and also has rotating exhibitions by local artists. It is considered as one of the most romantic restaurants in Colombo and is popular for its cakes. Rare is a chic and modern restaurant in Colombo with wonderful service. The restaurant uses organic produce to cook their unique, delicious cuisines and also boast of a wine cellar with over 150 labels. The lagoon is one of the best seafood restaurants in Colombo, and the fish curries, lobster Thermidor and raw sashimi are their speciality dishes.
How to reach Colombo (Transportation)
Bandaranaike International Airport, also called Colombo International Airport, is about 32 km north of Colombo. The flight connectivity to Colombo from India is excellent. While there are only a few direct flights to Colombo from India, most of the flights have layovers in Chennai or Bangalore. GoAir, Indigo and Spicejet have the maximum number of flights from India. However, Vistara and Srilankan Airlines have direct flights that help you reach the city in 2-3 hours instead of 6 hours. It is also quite easy to get cheap flight tickets to Colombo from India.
About Jabalpur
Nestled perfectly on the banks of the holy river Narmada, Jabalpur is the pride of Madhya Pradesh. Be it the Dhuandhar Falls or the Kanha National Park or the 17th-century's Madan Mahal Fort, Jabalpur is breathtakingly beautiful and also one of the most attractive tourist destinations. It is known for the wildlife locations and the different species of animals that reside in and near the city. You will definitely want to experience the wildlife and the natural beauty of this city. The British architecture and marble art combined with the natural landscape in the city, is yet another tourist attraction.
Best Time to Visit Jabalpur
Monsoon and winter are recommended as they are the best seasons to visit Jabalpur. The rainfall makes the mountains and the wildlife flourish, and the winter makes it possible for you to go sightseeing and admire nature in its best form. September to March is an ideal time to visit Jabalpur. This is when you will see a lot of tourists in the city, and since it is peak season, you might also come across decent flight deals to Jabalpur. Make sure you book a hotel in Jabalpur that has a breathtaking view or is closer to the major tourist attractions.
Summer in Jabalpur is from March to May. The temperature ranges from 35 to 41 degree Celsius. The climate is too hot to venture out, and it is advisable to avoid planning a trip during this time. The humidity also increases in the state, which makes it far more difficult to go out sightseeing.
The city receives monsoon from June to September. The temperature during this time dangle between 22 to 25 degree Celsius, which is quite pleasant. It rains heavily in Jabalpur during monsoon, but it only makes the weather more pleasant. If you love rains, this is the right time for you to visit Jabalpur. You will also see greenery everywhere during this season. Since monsoon is also a favourable time to visit the city, you might even find decent flight deals to Jabalpur during this time. You might get cheap flight tickets to Jabalpur during this time since it sees only a few more tourists as compared to summer.
Winter season is considered as the best time to visit Jabalpur. The temperature is between 8 to 20 degree Celsius, and this is when you can go sightseeing. You can also plan a lot of activities during this season. It's also a high season for tourists.
Places to Visit in Jabalpur
The Kanha National Park is home to royal Bengal Tigers and few other wild animals. You can opt for a safari ride and be assured that they are safe. Of course, you will also have to make sure that you don't disturb the animals who are in their natural habitat or irritate them in any way. The Dhuandhar Falls in Bhedaghat on River Narmada is a popular attraction in Jabalpur. The marble rocks here are famous all over the world, and the plunge of the waterfall creates a powerful roar and mist. River Narmada falls from a height of approximately 98 feet which is one of the specialities of the falls.
Madan Mahal Fort is a marvel and was the quarters of Gond's queen Rani Durgavati. It is also called the Rani Durgavati fort by the locals. The fort has a unique design with interesting passageways, sharp turns and a few underground routes. The fort was made for soldiers to fight unnecessary and sudden attacks from the enemy kingdoms. The Chausath Yogini temple is another popular place in Jabalpur. You will have to climb more than 500 steps, but it is worth it. Dedicated to Maa Durga, this is one of the oldest heritage sites in the city. The temple will remind you of the temples in Khajuraho just a tad bit. A lot of couples and newlyweds come to this temple to seek blessings from the Goddess for a healthy future together. You can't ignore when nature calls, and it will draw you to Bhedaghat, a famous tourist spot in Jabalpur. You can even go boating here and admire River Narmada even more.
Things to do in Jabalpur
Visit the Dhuandhar Falls and be awestruck by the beauty of it. It's a major tourist attraction in Jabalpur and leaves people impressed during summer, too. You can take a cable car ride here to enjoy the view from up top or even try out boating on river Narmada. You must also go for a safari ride in the Kanha National Park. You will have to pay an entry fee and a separate fee if you want to explore certain areas or hire a jeep. It will surely be quite a surreal experience to spot the wild animals in their natural habitat. Indulge in activities like paddle boating, speed boating and bird watching at Bargi Dam. You can also book a hotel in Jabalpur that overlooks the dam and is closer to the activities that you have planned here. Jabalpur is also quite famous for its street food. The spicy and delicious Aloo Chaats, Samosa and Poha Jalebi will be a treat to your taste buds.
Do not miss the evening aarti at the Narmada river. It begins at 7 pm and is exactly like the Ganga aarti that happens in Varanasi and Haridwar. You will be in awe of the enchanting view of the place during the aarti. Opt for a nature walk or bird watching at the Dumna Nature Reserve Park. You can also immerse yourself in the calm waters or take up fishing here. You'll have to pay a nominal entry fee, but it's not a lot, and you'll enjoy every bit of it. You will have to venture on a trek at a small hill located across the River Narmada, to find the popular Gwarighat Gurudwara. You will get to witness a panoramic view of Gwarighat from up top, and it's simply breathtaking. Be a part of the Akhand Path Bhog that happens here every Sunday. There are quite a few malls, too if you want to go shopping.
Food and Restaurants in Jabalpur
Jabalpur is known for its lip-smacking street food. The Poha Jalebi is a very popular dish among locals and tourists here. The city also serves some of the best chaats you'll have ever had. Apart from the spicy chaat and the desserts, you will also find a lot of restaurants that have the options of Chinese and continental in their menu. If you are planning to go for a cup of coffee and snacks, try Coffee Culture, a restaurant lounge in the Sadar area that is popular for its ambience and food. The Punjabi Food Corner in Napier town is also quite popular for its parathas and butter chicken. They also have chicken samosas as a part of their menu.
If there's a party on your mind, do try out Tiger Hunt or Yogi Bar, some of the best places to go drinking or dancing. Tiger Hunt also has a couple of games organised for its customers, and you will surely have a great time with your friends here. Indian Coffee House is a very popular place among locals and tourists to sit and dine. The ambience and the food will leave you satisfied and is worth every penny spent. You cannot leave the city without treating yourself to a fancy thali at Panchavati Gaurav. Moti Mahal is also a popular restaurant in the city.
How to reach Jabalpur (Transportation)
Jabalpur Airport also called the Dumna Airport, is about 25 km from the main city and connects Jabalpur with all domestic routes like Mumbai, Delhi, Bhopal, Indore and so on. The nearest international airport to Jabalpur is in Indore and Bhopal. The flight connectivity from Jabalpur to other major cities is excellent. You might even get cheap flight tickets to Jabalpur if you book in advance. It is pretty easy to get a public transport or taxi from Dumna airport to the city. In the city, you will also find some lovely homestays and hotel accommodations. Booking a cheap and affordable hotel in Jabalpur is quite easy. Besides, you can find them in the city centre, which will further help with your travel plans.
A lot of superfast and regular express trains run through and from Jabalpur. The Jabalpur Junction is one of the few stations that are near the city. Madan Mahal, Adhartal, Deori and Jamtara Paraswara are the other railway junctions close to Jabalpur. There are express trains that go to Jabalpur, so if you do wish to reach early and save money at the same time, you can achieve both without much hassle.
The NH7 is a popular route to Jabalpur that connects it to cities like Varanasi, Bhopal, Raipur, Allahabad, Nagpur, Hyderabad and so on. You can either hire a taxi or drive yourself to reach Jabalpur. Buses also run from different cities to Jabalpur, and this is also one of the most budget-friendly ways to travel.
About Colombo Airport
Colombo-Bandaranaike International Airport, popularly known as Bandaranaike International Airport is the international hub that serves Sri Lanka. The airport is situated at Negombo and has been named after SWRD Bandaranaike, the former Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.
About Airport Terminals
Colombo-Bandaranaike International Airport stretches about 32.5 km at Katunayake. The airport accommodates three passenger terminals with Terminal 1 being reserved for international airlines and flight activity. Terminal 2 also caters to international activities while Terminal 3 is set for domestic airline functions. Terminal 1 is the oldest and largest terminal in the Colombo-Bandaranaike International Airport with 12 gates. It opened back in 1967. Departure and arrival are also located in the same terminal and separated horizontally. Currently, all the international operations take place from this terminal. The terminal is connected to one concourse which has all the 12 gates. The terminal also has two lounges with Srilankan Airlines' famous Serendib Lounge being installed. Along with this, the Palm Spirit lounge is also located in proximity. Terminal 1 also has a dedicated cafeteria, day-rooms, showers, duty-free shops and a smoking lounge.
Terminal 2 has been constructed and opened much recently. It has eight gates and accommodates departure and arrival areas which are separated vertically. As per expansion plans, the airport plans to build an extension to Terminal 2 which will be built in stages and phases. The new terminal is set to have eight boarding gates along with 14 passenger boarding bridges. The proposed development plan also has bridge accommodations for Airbus A380. Terminal 3 came into existence in 2012 and has since been used for domestic operations. The departure and arrival zones are strategically separated in a horizontal manner. There is a dedicated Cargo Terminal that takes care of all cargo airline activities. The arrival and departure are separated in the same way as terminal 1, horizontally.
Colombo-Bandaranaike International Airport is owned by the Government of Sri Lanka while it is operated by Airport and Aviation Services Limited (AASL). AASL is a government body that has statutory powers to administer, manage and work on the development of the airport. The statutory body is also known to be a big contributor to Sri Lanka's economy as the civil aviation industry has witnessed tremendous financial revenues from the airport. Other airports that also fall under the AASL umbrella are Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport, Ratmalana Airport, Batticaloa Airport and Jaffna International Airport.
The airport has been going through some tremendous expansion plans and developments with a view to accommodating more airlines and flights. A split-level passenger terminal building is being constructed which would be separating both the departures as well as the arrivals vertically. Further on the same, there are constructions for a passenger boarding bridges that would directly connect to the new Airbus A380. Adding to the infrastructure would be a remote apron along with nine parking bays to facilitate air traffic movement. Stage II of the expansion seeks to acquiesce 600 hectares of land for construction of a new runway that can accommodate newer airplanes as well as aircraft maintenance and repair centre.
Top airlines flying from Colombo-Bandaranaike International Airport
Colombo-Bandaranaike International Airport accommodates various airlines as it is recognized to be one of the best tourist destinations. With its proximity to India, the airport sees a good amount of flights flying to Colombo-Bandaranaike International Airport from the Indian cities. Some of the biggest Indian airlines operate from Colombo-Bandaranaike International Airport are Air India, GoAir, IndiGo, SpiceJet and Vistara. These airlines have dedicated direct flights to Sri Lanka. Indian cities such as Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Madurai, Thiruvananthapuram, Hyderabad, Delhi, Kolkata, Kochi, to name a few, have provisions of direct flight connections to Colombo-Bandaranaike International Airport.
Similarly, various international airlines are also linked to Sri Lanka. In fact, some of the international airlines that operate from Colombo-Bandaranaike International Airport are Air Arabia, AirAsia, Air China, Cathay Pacific, China Eastern Airlines, Cinnamon Air, Edelweiss Air, Emirates, Etihad Airways, flydubai, Gulf Air, Korean Air, Kuwait Airways, LOT Polish Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Malindo Air, Oman Air, Qatar Airways, Salam Air, Saudia, Silkair, Singapore Airlines, Srilankan Airlines, Thai Airways, Turkish Airlines and SCAT Airlines. A majority of the flight activities come from the Middle East and Southeast Asian countries. A handful of cargo carriers also fly in and out of the airport. These include Cathay Pacific Cargo, Turkish Airlines Cargo, SriLankan Cargo and Etihad Cargo.
Facilities at Colombo-Bandaranaike International Airport
ATM, banks and currency exchange - The airport has a bunch of local banks and ATM services available. If you need to make the currency exchange for travelling within Sri Lanka or if you need some cash in hand for your destination outside the country, it can be arranged at the airport's premise.
Communication services - If you are in need of a local SIM service for your trip, you can get hold of the same at the airport itself. There are booths at the arrivals where they have telecommunication services. With necessary identification documents, you can get hold of the SIM.
Free WiFI - There are free WiFi services available at the airport. You will need to go to the website of Colombo-Bandaranaike International Airport to avail the same. Or you can visit the information desk to learn more about how to work around it.
Medical services - To ensure that medical emergencies at the airport are resolved quickly, the airport has also installed designated medical rooms and services. You can find them as well as pharmacies also at the airport. In case you are unable to find them, you can visit the nearest information desk and get more details. The airport paramedic services are known to be of good quality.
Baggage - With respect to baggage services, the airport offers a slew of facilities that would be beneficial. You can get hold of services ranging from wrapping plastic on the luggage, trolleys, storage facilities for the luggage, delivering luggage to the specified destination and more.
Pet assistance - There is room for pet services at the airport too. In case you are travelling with pets, there are professional staff who can take care of your pets as well as their needs. They would require authorized papers and documents from the Department of Animal Production and Health.
Porter service - You can avail porter services at the airport. Basically, you will have to inform your airlines well in advance to book a porter service. The airport staff will escort you through the terminals and take care of your luggage. This would include a security check of the bags, wrapping services, etc.
Airport lounge - There are three lounges at the airport, namely, Lotus, Araliya and Executive. The lounges have been designed in a way to enhance tranquillity and excellent hospitality. You can relax in the lounge, and at the same time, you can avail their services too. These include rich culinary delights, good resting space and complimentary showers and spa.
Restaurants and cafe - Colombo-Bandaranaike International Airport has many restaurants and cafes available. The departures and arrivals have good food establishments located perfectly to cater to passengers. Along with restaurants, the airport also as dedicated food courts that is in proximity to the lounge area.
Smoking zone - Smoking in public space is prohibited in Sri Lanka. Hence, the airport has also reserved a space for a smoking lounge. You can make purchases for cigarette boxes at nearby shops within the airport premise.
Transit Hotel - The airport's transit hotel is named Serendiva and offers world-class contemporary decor, aesthetic construction, modern amenities and top-notch hospitality. The interiors are known to bring about the rich culture of Sri Lanka. It is situated on the main pier of the Colombo-Bandaranaike International Airport's arrival/departure zone. The hotel is also surrounded by duty-free shops, lounges, immigration counters, cafes and more.
How to reach Colombo-Bandaranaike International Airport
The airport offers exemplary transport services and is well-connected to the main city. Although you would be required to travel a little depending on your itinerary and which part of the country you'll be visiting. But you will be able to reach the Colombo-Bandaranaike International Airport from different parts of the country. There are public buses, transport services and taxicabs available.
Express public buses are available within the city that can reach you to Colombo-Bandaranaike International Airport. It would only take about 25 mins to reach Colombo-Bandaranaike International Airport from Colombo (Pettah) bus stand. From here, you can traverse through all parts of the country without any hassle. You will need to get used to the crowd because the buses are always packed.
Taxicab services
The city is well-connected by taxicab services that can be availed to reach the Colombo-Bandaranaike International Airport. In fact, the airport also sees counters and lanes with taxi services outside the airport's arrival section. The arrival porch allows a fleet of 600 vehicles with fixed rates. With the taxicab, you can reach any part of the country, but it might get expensive depending on the distance from Colombo-Bandaranaike International Airport.
Which are the most preferred airlines from Colombo to Jabalpur ?
IndiGo, Air India Ltd and Hahn Air Systems are the most preferred airlines on Colombo to Jabalpur flight route.
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Which is the cheapest airline on Colombo to Jabalpur flight route?
IndiGo offers the cheapest flights from Colombo to Jabalpur.
When does the first flight leave from Colombo to Jabalpur?
The first flight from Colombo to Jabalpur is Air India Ltd AI274 at 03:00.
Which is the last flight on Colombo to Jabalpur route?
The last flight from Colombo to Jabalpur route is IndiGo 6E1204 at 13:50.
How many flights fly from Colombo to Jabalpur on the daily basis?
There are 13 flights flying from Colombo to Jabalpur every day. Around 13 flights are flying daily from Colombo to Jabalpur. Out of which 0 are direct and 13 are connecting flights on this route. Some major airlines between this route are IndiGo, Air India Ltd and Hahn Air Systems.
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Mongrels, by Stephen Graham Jones (2016) E
Reviewer: Emera
Date read: 9.11.2021
Book from: Library
Bloody, meaty, funny, sly, dreamy, sad, longing, gonzo, dirtbaggy. What Kathryn Bigelow's Western horror movie Near Dark did for vampires, Stephen Graham Jones' novel Mongrels does for werewolves. (I was delighted and unsurprised to see Jones citing Near Dark as a foundational influence in the afterword.) I treasured reencountering that texture of gritty, snappish, road-tripping familial love. This novel also captures the anxious, dreamy awkwardness of alienated adolescence through a tone that's very similar to Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red: both books have that curious way of looking at things so hard, with such a burning desire to understand, that the gaze splits or slides off to the side, becomes strange and oblique.
So many parts of this book are so nakedly about growing up poor and unwelcome and not-white in the American South that it tugs at your heart. At the same time, the werewolf mythos serves as a kind of appetizing cover story, an exciting distraction—just as it did for the teenaged Jones, who is Blackfeet. (Jones is calculatedly coy as to the werewolf family's physical appearance, but there are a couple references to black hair, and an unpleasant high school classmate once asks the narrator if he's "Mexican or something.") It's deeply touching to me to honor your sustaining childhood fantasy by turning it into a full novel, and a novel that's vividly charged with its own darkly joyful mythos: Jones clearly revels in the frequently gory elaborations that he brings to werewolf biology and lifeways.
I couldn't get enough of the episodic, almost diaristic storytelling, the plangent fragments of memory and the macabrely superheroic exploits. (The more outrageously superheroic bits are explained in a brief exchange of dialogue in the last chapter.) All of this is run through with the anxiety and dread that shape the lives of the impoverished and vulnerable.
In short: consumed with fascination and dread, I read this book way too fast. Sadly, this may have resulted in my breaking its spell more abruptly than would have been ideal. After I finished, the content and style dissociated in my head, and it became too easy to remember the book's more absurd, cartoonish bits, and less so its quietly fierce, tender tone or earthy, sweaty textures.
In the long run, though, what will stick with me is the way that Jones turned a fantasy into a novel in a way that inevitably points back at the real life that gave birth to the fantasy—and in a way that cries out for readers to recognize and value the loving, chaotic lives of the poor and dispossessed.
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The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides (1993) E
Date read: 10.19.2021
Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides is one of the most ecstatically beautiful, dream-like, and mournful books I've ever read, up next to Lolita. The two work together well in so many ways: the cuttingly yet not wholly satirical paean to the promise of America; the drenching languor and lust; the pathological yet resplendent objectification of beautiful, inaccessible girls. There's a bit of Poe in there, too: the Gothic obsessiveness, the unreliable narrators.
The novel centers on many of the same themes as Eugenides' Middlesex, but it's much tighter, less sprawling, less broadly tragicomic. The single bullet in a revolver loaded for Russian roulette seems like an appropriate metaphor—elusive yet potent.
From a craft perspective, there was so much I admired about this book: sentence after sentence that floats and twists with metamorphic elegance and surprise; image after image of nightmare-dreamish beauty and suffering. (The final paragraph of the book gives me a wave of goosebumps every time I read it.) There were moments where Eugenides' fabulist or magical-realist leanings put me in the same space as the horror movie It Follows. The queasy, desperate image of Lux Lisbon copulating on the roof of her parents' house, night after night, blended in my mind with the scene in It Follows where the entity stands naked on a neighborhood rooftop, looming and improbable. The shadow of sex, death, and disorder falls over suburbia.
The book's narrative technique, Eugenides' choice of a "we" perspective (whose identity and role become clearer and clearer over the course of the novel) is quietly astonishing, hypnotic, and unnerving. It might be this choice that does the most work to lend the book its ineffable quality. We hear the story of a neighborhood as filtered through a shifting surveillance network, an aggregate view that is ultimately fallible, individual, and selfish, yet by assuming the status of "we" insists on a semblance of omniscience and authority.
This paradox of collective identity seems like the crux of the novel, and Eugenides plays on it in several configurations: through the narrating "we;" through the despairing alliance of the Lisbon sisters; and through the social landscape that surrounds them, the tidy suburbia crumbling at the edges, where the decay and racial tension of neighboring Detroit seep through. Every union is imperfect; everything contains the seeds of entropy.
Picnic at Hanging Rock, by Joan Lindsay (2020)
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Desultory Annotations for Gerald Durrell's "The Entrance" (1980)
Gerald Durrell's infamous Gothic horror story "The Entrance" is the final story in his collection The Picnic and Other Inimitable Stories (1980), which otherwise comprises a series of arch, Wodehousian, semi-autobiographical comedies, centering on absurd mishaps that beset Durrell's family outings and European travels. ("The Havoc of Havelock" is one of the funniest things I've ever read.) I got turned on to "The Entrance" after seeing a number of remarks about it on the Internet along the lines of, "Durrell, why would you do that to us?!" Obviously I couldn't pass up experiencing the tonal whiplash for myself.
Whiplash there was! Although, warned in advance, I couldn't help noting the morbid humor that crops up in his comedies, too—in particular, "The Michelin Man" is highly reminiscent of Roald Dahl's horror/comedy fiction for adults. ("Lamb to the Slaughter," anyone?) Durrell himself tries to give ample warning for "The Entrance": he cushions our arrival with a typically cozy frame story where he arrives at the cottage of a couple of bohemian friends in the south of France, complete with loving descriptions of the wine and truffles they consume. But then—amid an evening storm, the friends produce "a very curious manuscript" whose contents are promised to be "horrid." There we enter into "The Entrance."
I was delighted, disturbed, and baffled by the story: so here are my notes and attempts at analysis. Page numbers are from the 1980 Simon & Schuster edition. I welcome any contributions, corrections, and alternative interpretations.
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The Buried Giant, by Kazuo Ishiguro (2015) E
Book from: Personal collection
In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, set off to visit their son, whom they haven't seen in years. And, because a strange mist has caused mass amnesia throughout the land, they can scarcely remember anything about him. As they are joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan charge, and an illustrious knight, Axl and Beatrice slowly begin to remember the dark and troubled past they all share.
The Buried Giant has the slow-motion horror of a nightmare: the confused repetitiousness of the dialogue; Axl and Beatrice's frailty and tentativeness; the blurred, clouded landscape; the increasing sense of building towards a terrible revelation or shattering. As is typical of Ishiguro, the prose is carefully flat and affectless: an acres-wide, inch-deep pool of water, any ripples almost imperceptible. To be blunt, the prose is boring—and yet I also kept thinking that this was the most entrancingly, sublimely boring book I've ever read. I felt like Beatrice in the scene where she's swarmed by rat-like, life-stealing pixies and nearly subsides into death. Slow-motion horror.
I was transfixed by these outbreaks of folk horror: the woman stroking a rabbit's fur with a knife in a rain-dripping ruin, the underground beast described as looking something like "a large skinless animal," the tunnels full of infant skeletons. As indelible as these images are—like Symbolist paintings—they become indescribably more disturbing because of the way that Ishiguro doesn't describe them head-on. He robs us of a sense of clarity, control—the narrator's vision is always glancing away, blurring at the edges.
The gradual revelation of mass slaughter that arises from these grotesque suggestions, and the slow topple towards renewed slaughter, is almost unbearably tragic, tearing. Ishiguro establishes his main characters as tragicomically human: vulnerable, bumbling, striving, absurd, valiant, kind. Then he shows us that they are walking towards a point of no return. There will be no reconciliation, no peace for the land, once the Buried Giant rises. Saxons will fight Britons once more; Axl and Beatrice fear the permanent oblivion of an afterlife with no kindness toward lovers. Companionship and love, hard-earned, will fade into another generation of helpless loss and strife. Did it all matter, that they loved? Of course it does: over the course of the novel, we see how much it matters to them, and to us, that these characters loved. But in the eyes of history, it does not.
The Isle of the Dead, 1880 version, Arnold Böcklin
The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989): review by Emera
The Ballad of Sir Dinadan, by Gerald Morris (2003): review by Emera
Posted on January 13, 2021 January 12, 2021 Author EmeraCategories Book, NovelsTags dark fantasy, fantasy, historical fantasy3 Comments on The Buried Giant, by Kazuo Ishiguro (2015) E
Picnic at Hanging Rock, by Joan Lindsay (2020) E
It was a cloudless summer day in the year 1900. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of the secluded volcanic outcropping. Farther, higher, until at last they disappeared. They never returned… Mysterious and subtly erotic, Picnic at Hanging Rock inspired the iconic 1975 film of the same name by Peter Weir. A beguiling landmark of Australian literature, it stands with Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, and Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides as a masterpiece of intrigue.
As expected, this was a delicious summer treat – though it didn't go down without some misgivings. On the whole, Picnic at Hanging Rock is satirical, dreamy, sensuous, and occasionally quite sinister and chilling—mainly in how Lindsay refers to the dark, inscrutable mass of the Hanging Rock brooding in the metaphysical distance behind or beyond the characters ever after the girls' disappearance, the source of some kind of alien causality.
The book is also quite, quite gay. I was astonished by how Sapphic the movie is when I saw it back in undergrad, but the book is far more explicit than the movie's languid, soft-focus erotic glow. The novel opens with five pages of the students and the prettiest teacher fluttering over their Valentine's Day cards and take turns thinking about how much pleasure they derive from gazing at each other's curls and bosoms and OH MY. Check it—this is from the perspective of Mademoiselle, the French teacher:
The girl's voluptuous little breasts, her dimples, full red lips, naughty black eyes, and glossy black ringlets, were a continual source of aesthetic pleasure.
It's also immensely "interesting" that the book's only two male characters effectively end up riding into the sunset together. It may be that Lindsay largely intends the spiritual bachelorhood of young, wealthy Michael Fitzhubert as tragic: he's positioned in a love quadrangle with the vanished Miranda (his true love, seen once and never recovered); Irma, the one returned girl (who regards Michael as her true love, but is spurned); and his best mate, the rough horseman Albert (who, finally, is in love with Irma). I found this love-quadrangulation silly as a romantic device, mainly because I found it hard to take any of the characters seriously – a point to which I'll return later. I think what's interesting about it is its alienating, distancing effect, the way that these four young people are strangely offset from one another, incapable of moving in the same space. This heightens, of course, the book's central element of feminine-as-mystery. At one point, Michael even wonders to himself what "feminine secrets" were shared among the girls before they disappeared. Estranged from these unattainable, sometimes uncanny nymphs, Michael and Albert (hairy, tattooed, streetwise, occasionally lounging naked in Michael's presence…) ride off into the optimism of undefined masculine adventures together.
Let's return to the problem of how Lindsay handles her characters, generally. I think one of the book's biggest weaknesses is that Lindsay treats the characters so archly that it comes off as self-satisfaction with her own satirical wit. Any dignity or intelligence the characters might have is often diminished by her heavy-handed descriptions. It doesn't help that Michael, who is crushingly boring except for how he plays off of Albert, gets to occupy the middle third of the book with an immensely slow, inchoately mopey convalescence sequence. No, thanks. Luckily, Lindsay recovers from there with one of the book's most climactically disturbing scenes, Irma's final return to Appleyard College.
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Posted on July 22, 2020 August 14, 2020 Author EmeraCategories Book, NovelsTags folk horror, gothic, horror, lgbt, weird fiction1 Comment on Picnic at Hanging Rock, by Joan Lindsay (2020) E
Mortar and air
I have a new poem about early spring in a city (among other things) out in Boulevard's spring issue, which also contains an interview with Téa Obreht, first-hand accounts from the Wuhan lockdown, and much wonderful fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. You can order a copy here. (An ebook version will be available later, too.)
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"The Bear," by Beulah Amsterdam (2019) E
This story appears in the winter 2019 issue of Ploughshares.
In the dim forest cabin, a brown bear stared at me. He sniffed my suitcase. I froze.
The bear looked at me with his deep black eyes. We gazed at each other. No longer afraid of him, I felt a close connection. I watched as he explored the small, rustic room, pawing at the door mat and the bedside rug…
This opening scene is shortly revealed to be a dream, one which conducts the waking narrator to a reminiscence of a past boyfriend, a bearish Communist and fellow college student in 1950's New York.
I relish, with a kind of voyeuristic hunger, tales of student/bohemian New York life in the 50's-80's, and I love the unsettlingly lucid style of this short, regretful story. As those flat yet flowing sentences accumulate, their deadpan tone an imperfect restraint for the off-kilter emotional urgency beneath, it's impossible to escape a sense of the weight of the narrator's presence. I could hear her tranced voice in my head, feel unblinking eye contact. I wish I could spend more time with this strange, melancholy, pure narrator, but the story ends painfully soon, after briefly playing out a teasing contrast between different ideas of visions and the miraculous; which brings us back to the dream of the bear.
This story is such an incredible study in tone. I'd love to find more of Amsterdam's work.
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"The Regimental History," by Andrea Barrett (2019) E
Read from: Personal collection
This story appears in the 2019 fall edition of Ploughshares.
Dear Maurice, this morning it is raining very hard and the wind is rattling our tent, so we can hardly hear each other. Thanks for the news about Albert's sister, which cheered him. I'm glad the girl helping Aurie is working out (hello to you, if you are reading this! your handwriting is good but you spelled "tonsillitis" wrong. Also, furlough is not spelled "ferlow.") Vic has been sick with chills and fever but the doctor claims he's doing better now – good thing, as we hear rumors that we'll be moving soon. Ezra, on picket duty last week, says the rebs across the Rappanannock are buzzing about and he thinks we may be marching upriver…
I've read a good bit of ruminating about the erasures of history (that is, the writing of history), its inescapably flawed and subjective processes, but nothing has made me feel that fact, that human accumulation of errors and losses and misapprehensions, like this lucent, lovely, mournful novella by Andrea Barrett. I've been meaning to read her much-awarded collection of historical fiction, Ship Fever, for years, but still haven't gotten around to it. This introduction to her work will goad me back to that goal.
Over three parts, Barrett lets us glimpse the lives of a set of Civil War characters who are connected by their desire to write the history of a disgraced Union regiment, in which two beloved brothers served. Izzy returns home disabled and traumatized; Vick disappears, presumed a deserter. Through glimpses of their stories, and of relatives and friends who circle around the voids of the brothers' lives, we witness not only the physical and emotional depredations of war, but the quieter attrition of simply the passage of time. Men who wanted to tell their war stories die ignominiously in peacetime; newspaper accounts distort facts and then are enshrined as true history by later republication. Letters are lost; transcribed accounts acquire unexplained annotations. Intentions to write, to share, to publish are pushed aside by the demands of daily life, deferred and deferred again. The present continually pulls us away from the past – and yet the past never disappears, it cannot be divided away, only diminished, obscured, distracted from.
All of this, Barrett depicts with graceful, transparent, quietly witty prose. She moves easily among snippets of letters and articles; the practical details of post-war life as, say, a biology teacher or a ceramist; and the characters' interior lives. Above all, the characters feel so present, so true, and so human. You'd like to be friends with many of them, except that they, too, have slipped away in all the decades between then and now.
Remarkable Creatures, by Tracy Chevalier (2009): review by Kakaner
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Author Event: André Aciman discusses Find Me
Excerpts from André Aciman discussing Find Me, the sequel to Call Me By Your Name. The event was on November 11, 2019, hosted by the Harvard Book Store at the Brattle Theater.
Aciman is very fluent, charming, and sort of artfully self-deprecating.
On being back in Harvard Square, where he was previously a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature; on nostalgia and the past
On familiar Harvard locations: "…many of which have disappeared, which is what happens when time goes by … many of which have good memories attached, many more of which have bad. If you have been a grad student, you know what I mean."
"A nosteme is the smallest possible unit of return." [The etymology of nostalgia is, nóst(os), a return home + algia, pain.]
"[Nostalgia] doesn't mean that you are not excited about what the future will bring, but it does mean that you can find satisfaction in trying to call back that past. You may not be successful in bringing it back, but you can call it. … The past is always there."
"Summons up the past and reappraises it or resituates it in the present"
Does he have a spot like Elio and Oliver's? "There's a wall, and it is not far from here. I went there this morning, and it still spoke to me. It happened 40 years ago, and the anniversary is coming up because it was in November."
Civilization and Its Discontents – things built on ruins – "I think this is exactly how identity works… I don't believe we have a core."
"I have never had one identity. I have never been one thing."
Egypt has lost its memory of its Jewish/multiethnic community. "We are rebuilding the Jewish temple, we want you back." – Egyptian ambassador attempting to woo Aciman back to Alexandria
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The Bridal Wreath & The Wife, by Sigrid Undset (1920, 1921) E
Date read: 9.22.2019, 11.21.2019
This is a review of the first two books in the Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy: The Bridal Wreath and The Wife. I read the recent translations from the Norwegian by Tiina Nunnally, after giving up on the original translations by Charles Archer and J. S. Scott, which are self-consciously archaic and expurgated significant passages.
In early 1300s Norway, Kristin Lavransdatter is the eldest daughter of a charismatic, gentle, and adoring father, and a distant, melancholy mother. In The Bridal Wreath, Kristin grows from a quiet child into a quietly fiery – and occasionally cruel – young woman, and thwarts her parents' plans for her future by flinging herself into a romance with the passionate but disastrously irresponsible nobleman Erlend Nikulausson. In The Wife, Kristin struggles to live with the guilt of the sins that she and Erlend committed in the course of clinging to their relationship, while now striving to lead her new household – where she is initially regarded with derision – with grace and strength. Her fervent embrace of Christianity serves sometimes as a comfort, and sometimes as one of several wedges between her and Erlend. Meanwhile, foolhardy Erlend is drawn further and further into the turbulent politics surrounding the fate of the Norwegian throne at the time, with eventually ruinous consequences for their family's fortunes.
The way I keep on describing these books (which won the 1928 Nobel Prize) to people is a medieval Scandinavian version of Anna Karenina. They concern themselves with a span of decades in the lives of aristocrats in a severe land, but viewed through incredibly intimate, often stream-of-consciousness renditions of women's experience in particular. The conflict between personal passion and social responsibility, the torment of guilt, the struggle to understand what it is to live a Christian life, hypocrisy, infidelity, the temptation of cruelty, and the closeness of mortality all weigh heavily on the characters. This all plays out against a medieval setting that is rendered so vividly and naturalistically that it seems as if Undset is reporting directly from that century. (It made a lot more sense to me when I read that Undset's father was an archaeologist and her mother his secretary/illustrator: she grew up immersed in history.)
How to describe the effect of these books – what is so piercingly compelling about them? The experience of Undset's cool, fluid, and methodical prose – especially with Nunnally's exactingly clean translation – is immersive, hypnotic, yet, frankly, at times boring. Even though I love nature writing, for example, I was frequently bored during the first quarter or so of The Bridal Wreath, when Kristin is a child, no obvious narrative stakes have been established, and there are lengthy descriptions of their days amid the fields, mountains, seasonal turns, etc.
But as soon as any emotional stakes have been raised – I can't think of many authors who can equal the way that Undset writes emotional pain and difficult love. Her distinct coolness is an asset: she has this devastating way of leading you directly into a character's emotional crisis, and then departing just as the scene barely begins to round off, so that the aftermath must simply be imagined. Or, she mentions devastating revelations about previously beloved characters in a mere one or two sentences, slipping by in the relentless onward march of time. (It "helps" that Undset makes no bones about the closeness of death in medieval times: characters die with great frequency, whether through illness, accident, or violence.)
There are so many moments in the books of purely emotional experience that I feel I'll never forget – the incredibly cold ending of The Bridal Wreath, or the several heart-rending scenes of devotion between Kristin's aging parents in The Wife, or Kristin's pained reflections on how little she understood the depths of her parents' lives, or their love for her.
Again, I'll be honest that I questioned several times (out of boredom, overwhelming melancholy, or both) whether I really wanted to finish the series. But Undset's sort of gentle severity is so uniquely compelling and transportative; again and again, I concluded that I had to see it through, and follow her characters to their ends. I'll be reading the final volume of the trilogy, The Cross, over the next month or two.
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Q: Some screenshots are not stored in html report I can save a screenshot to specified folder;however when building HTML Report it. does not save some of the screenshots when using directory path. Here is some of code:
    if "Users/Therapists" in name:
            print "Hello type: Link in Users / Therapists"
            xpath_expression = "//*[contains(text(), 'Setup')]/parent::a"
            elems = driver.find_elements_by_xpath(xpath_expression)
            if elems:
                hover = ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(elems[0])
                hover.perform()
                time.sleep(5)
                print "Hello Link User/Therapist before the elems loop taking screenshot here"
                driver.save_screenshot('C:/Users/xxxxx/Documents/QA/Auto/Temp/xxxxx/screenshots/file_2.png')
                driver.save_screenshot(test_dir_path + name + "-pass.png")
                xpath_expression = "//*[contains(text(), '" + name + "')]/parent::a"
                elems = driver.find_elements_by_xpath(xpath_expression)
                print "Hello Link User/Therapist before the elems loop"
                if elems:
                    for elm in elems:
                        print "Hello Link User/Therapist in the elems loop"
                        #driver.save_screenshot(test_dir_path + name + "-beforeclick-pass.png")
                        #time.sleep(5)
                        elm.click()
                        time.sleep(5)
                        driver.save_screenshot(test_dir_path + name + "-pass.png")
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                        results_d[name]["screenshot"] = test_dir_path + name + "-pass.png"

                        return results_d

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css_source = "report_template/css"
screenshot_Source = "screenshots/" + str(report_number)

destination_folder_css = destination_folder_root + "/css"
destination_folder_js = destination_folder_root + "/js"
destination_folder_images = destination_folder_root + "/screenshots/" + str(report_number)

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