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The rise of the Blue Moon Tuesday was at 7:27 pm and the sunset was at 7:56 pm. The timing of the moonrise with the setting sun meant that the moon would rise up in the sky over Washington during the "blue hour" which is the period of time when the sky transitions from light blue to black.
Related: The "alternative" Blue Moon
The blue hour occurs during twilight and is an optimal time for photography. Ian Livingston, in a past CWG post, stated, "the blue hour provides a photographer the ideal combination of natural and man-made light for giving an image warmth and depth. These qualities are much harder to obtain once the sky goes black."
The blue hour was really about 30 minutes on Tuesday and it was only the first 15 minutes that was truly optimal for photography. I suppose the "blue hour" sounds better than the "blue 30 minutes."
There is no absolute time for the blue hour. It varies by season and latitude. For example, when I was shooting Big Ben in London several weeks ago, the blue hour was almost a full hour.
Also, the sky needs to be fairly clear to observe blue conditions during twilight. I found that cloud cover during twilight can produce various shades of color that include red, pink, gray, and magenta.
In Washington, the moonrise tonight is at 8:03 pm. This means the blue moon will appear on the horizon during the optimal time for photography, about the time the sky has a light shade of blue. As the moon rises above the horizon over Washington the sky will quickly transition to black. Of course, this is provided we don't have cloud cover this evening which is a possibility.
Included in this post are photos from our readers showing shots of the blue moon from various locations in the Washington area. Does anyone plan to shoot the blue moon tonight?
Here are some more Blue Moon photos…
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From CWG readers, via Flickr and Twitter:
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With crop prices looking quite bullish recently -- in some cases, reaching record highs -- the outlook for agriculture in 2008 appears pretty good.
But if you look a little deeper, things may not seem quite so rosy -- because expenses such as health insurance and fuel are also soaring.
That was the general message conveyed at Thursday's Ag Issues Forum in Callaway, sponsored by the Detroit Lakes Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Farm business management instructor Randy Zimmerman of Northland College made a presentation on the projected profit margin for wheat, soybeans, corn and sugar beets in 2008.
As an example, despite having the highest projected price per bushel, at $40, and the highest total product return per acre, of $880, sugar beet producers also have the largest projected expenses per acre, at $935. This leaves them with a net return per acre of minus $38, for a projected profit margin of -4 percent.
Grain producers fared slightly better in Zimmerman's projections, with wheat at .36 percent profit margin (less than 1 percent), soybeans at 16.17 percent and corn at 2.69 percent.
"There is a perception that things are really, really good right now in farm country," said Sharon Josephson of Congressman Collin Peterson's office, who was at the forum to give the audience an update on the progress of 2007 Farm Bill legislation.
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Though the U.S. House of Representatives passed its version of the Farm Bill in Juiy, the Senate's piece of the equation hasn't fared so well; it remains in limbo. If this legislation is not passed, Josephson said Congress is faced with the possibility of extending the 2002 Farm Bill, or even reverting to the standards of the 1949 Farm Bill.
Neither of these alternatives are very attractive, as each has its drawbacks. The 2002 Farm Bill would exclude important provisions for dairy, fruits and vegetables, and energy that are in the 2007 House bill. The 1949 legislation does not contain provisions for wetland protection.
And then, Josephson said, "Looming over everything is perhaps a presidential veto."
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Becker County Highway Engineer Brad Wentz reported on the county's five-year highway plan. Because of state and federal funding cuts for transportation, there's not a lot of reconstruction or grading projects in the plan, Wentz noted. Rather, the emphasis has been on "trying to maintain what we have."
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A member of the Detroit Lakes Farmrers Market, Flynn noted that the number of farmers markets in Minnesota is also expanding, from about 50 five years ago to more than 200 this year.
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The night was as dark as a tomb and I was wet and cold. I felt lucky to be alive and I couldn't believe my good fortune in finding a tattered blanket in this rusted ship's hold. I pulled it higher over my shoulders and dozed.
We shouldn't have tried to fish today. The weather forecast called for building winds, but we thought we could get out for a few hours to catch some of the big stripers that always migrate into the Chesapeake Bay in late October. The blow arrived soon after we launched into the Honga River from the Hoopersville ramp. By the time we rounded Nancy's Point into the main stem of the Bay, we were well into the teeth of a full northwestern gale. We decided to call it off, but just as my friend Phil turned his center console back east toward the river, a rogue wave hit us broadside. The boat rolled hard and I went overboard. Read More!
Hey guys, it won't be long before Santa soars over the Chesapeake Bay in his reindeer-powered center console. Let's face it, most of us still have some shopping to do for that special lady on our list. While most Internet gift guides will suggest you buy her bracelets, earrings, or pretty clothes for Christmas, I've collected some fishing-related stocking stuffers that are guaranteed to please.* Included are useful links so you can buy them online right away!
9. I'd Rather Be F___ING t-shirt: Comes in men's and ladies' sizes, perfect for those early mornings when you wake up five minutes before the alarm goes off and need to signal your intentions before you head off to the lake. Comes with a dry erase marker for added versatility. Trust me, chicks dig shirts like this one.
The Pope doesn't call me very often, so when he does, I usually pick up. "Whas' up, Kimbro?" Thank God he wasn't speaking Latin this time. "You know I'm gonna be in DC next week, so we're fishing, right?"
"Yeah, everything's slow at work what with all the festivities." I replied. "How about we meet Wednesday morning at Kent Narrows."
I looked at the wind forecast, and things didn't look good, but fortunately there wasn't a breeze stirring when I woke up. I've had some problems with the lights on my boat trailer, but somehow they were working fine as I pulled out of my driveway and headed down Route 50. I'd overslept a little and I don't like being late, so I decided not to stop for gas. When I got to the ramp, the gas gauge was pegged way past full. Read More!
If you haven't already, subscribe to my YouTube channel to get my latest videos. Also don't forget, a lot of my recent Internet activity has been via social networks, especially Facebook (@Shawn.Kimbro), Twitter (@ShawnKimbro) and Instagram (@Shawn_Kimbro). It's very easy to get a message out via these outlets and I can very quickly post fishing pictures and short reports. If you haven't already, please look me up! Here are some recent videos.
In January's past, I've suggested a few New Year's resolutions to my fishing buddies. I stand by the resolution I recommended in 2013 that we fishermen should include at least one picture of our wife and kids on our cell phones to balance out the one hundred thirty two other shots of our boat, truck, and every fish we've caught in the past three years. I also still recommend that we teach our kids how to tie their shoes before we show them how to make a Palomar knot. I thought of some good ones this year too. I mean, shouldn't we all resolve to spend less time at the gym and more time watching fishing videos on YouTube? And, couldn't most of us change our internet passwords since "rockfish" is getting a little over used? Nevertheless, this January I decided to worry less about the resolutions of others and focus more on my own self-improvement goals. Here are my fifteen personal resolutions for 2015:
1. I resolve to stop showing my fishing partners Victoria's Secret videos on my cell phone while they're driving the truck and pulling the boat. Oops, never mind. Already broke that one.
2. I resolve never to regret a tattoo, not even one on my lower back from 1982 of Aunt Bee holding a bent Ugly Stick while reeling up a Jack Daniels bottle. Read More!
1. When your wife or girlfriend asks, "You aren't going to fish in the rain are you?"
Well, yes I am, and in the sleet, and in the snow, and in the fog, and any other time the other guys are at home sitting on the couch.
2. Or when she wonders, "Why do you need another fishing rod, you already have three?"
And that puts me in the lower five percent of all the other fishermen I know who each have at least sixty.
3. Or how about, "Will you be home by dark?"
No, I'll fish until dark, and if the fish are biting I'll keep fishing until they stop or at least until my muscles become so stiff they have to pry my rod out of my cold wet fingers.
4. And, I hope you haven't heard, "My old boyfriend caught one bigger than that."
I don't care. Okay, I do care, but I don't want to hear about it! And that reminds me, don't say:
5. "Cute little guy."
Not about a fish, not about anything, not ever! Read More!


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The following statement was issued by the Boston Archdiocese yesterday, concerning an agreement to settle hundreds of clergy sex abuse lawsuits for 85 million dollars: ''The Archdiocese of Boston wishes to announce that an agreement in principle has been reached with the steering committee representing the lawyers for the plaintiffs in the cases against the Archdiocese and other defendants in the matter of clergy sexual abuse against minors. We are pleased that the parties involved were able to arrive at what we feel is a just and equitable settlement offer to the plaintiffs and their families. At this point, the lawyers on the steering committee have agreed to present a memorandum of understanding to the attorneys representing the other plaintiffs, and then all plaintiffs' counsel will present the offer to their clients for their consideration. Our hope is that the survivors involved will be able to accept the terms of the offer so as to bring this part of the matter to a close. ''Obviously, there is much more that needs to be done to bring about the healing and reconciliation necessary for the survivors of clergy sexual abuse. That is why the settlement also includes elements other than financial compensation, such as the continuance of the archdiocesan program to provide counselling to survivors of sexual abuse by clergy. Beyond this, the Archdiocese is committed to doing everything humanly possible to make sure that this never occurs again. Our prayer is that this may, with the help of God, become a reality and that we may all learn from what has happened and continue to work to reach out to heal this deep wound in the Body of Christ.' Source: Boston Archdiocese


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On Tuesday, Advanced Micro Devices will announce a long-expected restructuring, according to sources familiar with the deal.
As expected, the No. 2 supplier of PC processors will split into two companies: one for designing chips, the other for manufacturing them. The capital-intensive business of manufacturing chips is weighing on AMD as it reels under a $5 billion debt load.
The investment is expected to allow AMD to remain directly involved in chip manufacturing–crucial for competing with Intel, which has used its manufacturing prowess to great advantage.
AMD would not comment Monday.
The company has secured about $5.7 billion of "confirmed, pledged investment," with some of the money earmarked for a future manufacturing facility in Malta, New York, according to sources.
AMD will own part of the new manufacturing entity, for the time being to be called The Foundry Company, while Advanced Technology Investment Co. (ATIC) will own the rest. One of the investors, Abu Dhabi-based Mubadala Development Co., invested approximately $622 million in AMD last November.
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What Happens to Your Body After a Chiropractic Adjustment?
At Gulf Coast Rehabilitation and Wellness Clinic, we perform hundreds of chiropractic spinal adjustments for folks living in Pinellas Park and surrounding Tampa Bay communities every day to treat whiplash, car accident injuries, sciatica, fibromyalgia, headaches, and whole host of other conditions. If you haven't come in for an evaluation, you may give us a call at (727) 541-2520 or visit http://gulfcoastrehab.us/ to schedule. Read on to discover what you should expect to feel like after your first chiropractic adjustment.
What is a Chiropractic Adjustment?
Chiropractic adjustments are spinal manipulations performed by a chiropractor to realign your spine (correcting subluxation) and other skeletal regions of the body to remove pressure on your nerves and re-balance your body structure. Correcting vertebral subluxation through chiropractic spinal adjustments affects many bodily functions and activities, like nerve impulse flow over the spinal cord. When spinal nerves are returned to normal, your body begins to renew and rebuild itself.
Relief from Symptoms
You may find your neck and back pain symptoms have begun to disappear after a few visits. The symptoms and problems that drove you through the chiropractor's door soon begin to lessen, especially if you follow your treatment plan and lifestyle counseling advice.
A small number of people do not feel much difference after an adjustment and take this as a sign that chiropractic care in Pinellas Park and St. Pete is not working. The lack of any external reaction, especially immediately after a first visit, does not mean you are not benefiting from your adjustments. Each case is unique, and depending on a variety of factors like the cause of your pain – including whether you are following all of your chiropractor's advice regarding water intake and home exercise prescriptions – will ultimately affect your treatment results.
You may experience a wonderful sense of relaxation and a feeling of peace following an adjustment. These feelings can stretch out for the rest of the day or even the week and may lead to a great night's sleep, possibly better than you have had since your symptoms began.
Some people report a warm feeling that flows down the spine and through the limbs, and find this to be a soothing experience. Other folks feel a boost of energy after chiropractic care in Pinellas Park, and end up enjoying an unexpectedly productive day.
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After your adjustment, you may feel a small amount of discomfort, headache, and muscle soreness, as well as:
- Detoxification – These symptoms can be due to detoxification of your body after the adjustment. Adjusting the spine releases toxins bound up in the subluxation. As these poisons leave your system, you may feel a slight amount of nausea, headache, fever, drowsiness, or lethargy.
- Muscle soreness – The muscles around your spine aid in the realignment after adjustment, so it makes sense that you may be a little sore. In many cases, these muscles have not been in the proper position for many years and are weak. You may continue to feel a little temporary soreness until the muscles have strengthened again in their rightful positions.
- Awakening of Nerves – In some cases, nerves were impinged or compressed for years are now waking up and healing, therefore becoming sensitive again. This is a good thing.
- Stress Release – Our body has a physical reaction to stress, affecting the neck and back. Chiropractic adjustments in Pinellas Park may release these fixated stress points, and can cause a feeling of euphoria as a result.
- No Feeling – If your general state of health is good-to-great, you may not feel any difference after your first adjustment. Likewise, your condition may be so deteriorated that sensation to your body is lost.
For most people, these reactions are short-lived and temporary, and you get to enjoy the feelings of well-being after the first adjustment or two.
Reduce and Relieve Reactions
To reduce any chiropractic care reactions in Pinellas Park or St. Pete:
- Water – Drink at least four cups of water after a treatment to flush out the toxins and lactic acid released from spinal correction.
- Ice – Ice down the muscles or sore area to reduce inflammation. Use a gel cold pack or simply wrap ice in a small towel. Apply for approximately 10 minutes or until the area is numb. You can repeat up to 3 times.
- Food – Avoid meat following an adjustment as it promotes inflammation. Eat vegetables, fruit, and fish. You may also take a vitamin C supplement as it is an anti-inflammatory (check with your chiropractor first).
- Exercise – Be sure to follow any at-home exercise or stretching prescribed by your chiropractor. After your first treatment, you likely want to avoid any heavy lifting. It may help to take a 20-minute walk.
Your chiropractor should provide you with a list of instructions following your first chiropractic spinal adjustment. It is always a good idea to check with your chiropractor first before pursing any new exercise or diet plan, especially if you are under initial care.
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The medical professionals at Gulf Coast Rehabilitation and Wellness Center have over 20 years experience treating injuries resulting from car accidents and other situations. Their number one goal is to return you to a pain-free and healthy life through safe, natural, and effective treatment, regardless of how your pain began. Their qualified chiropractors will meet your treatment needs using a variety of modalities, including laser therapy. With chiropractic care, the body is allowed to naturally heal itself to end your pain and so that you don't experience a worsening injury later.
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More than 30 million Americans suffer from migraine headaches which can be classified as severe and often disabling headaches. A typical migraine headache will give a warning sign before its onset, such as tingling in your limbs, seeing blind spots or flashing lights. You will know when you are experiencing a migraine headache because they are accompanied by most, if not all of the following symptoms. Severe pain either on one side or both sides of the head, pulsing head pain, worsening head pain with any activity, nausea or vomiting, sensitivity to light and sound, and not being able to function regularly. While seeing flashing lights or blind spots are a common warning sign of a migraine, some sufferers experience these symptoms throughout the entire duration of their headache. This is classified as a classic migraine and, along with the above conditions, the person will also experience weakness and speech problems along with zigzagging lines in their eyes. If a migraine is left untreated, the pain can last from four to 72 hours, which can cause huge disturbances in a person's normal life.
Although doctors are not 100 percent sure what causes migraines to occur, there are something's that are known to trigger these headaches. These include, fluctuations in hormones; many women claim that their migraines worsen just before a period or during menopause and pregnancy. Certain foods can also trigger migraines, such as alcohol, cheese, chocolate, aspartame and caffeine which is found in coffee, tea, chocolate and most soft drinks. To avoid migraines as best you can, try keeping a diary of the foods you eat and record how they made you feel afterwards. After a couple of weeks doing this you should be able to see what foods that are triggers for you, therefore telling you which foods to avoid. Other triggers can include stress, changes in the environment and certain medications.
To prevent migraines try avoiding trigger foods, as well as exercise regularly, cutting down on estrogen producing drugs if you are a woman, and quitting smoking and drinking alcohol. All of these things can help you avoid migraines.
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by Jackie from Edmonton
Nice stayPosted Jan 5, 2016 on Hotels
Walls were a bit thin, and it's a bit far from the centre (but Taos is small). Otherwise it was a nice hotel. Friendly staff.
by Viorel from AR
Bad, bad, bad.Posted Jan 4, 2016 on Hotels
First things first, the hotel does not look like it is on the website. Then the condition is very very poor. No paper towels in the room. The AC and the heat was very bad, it dries up the air and doesn't function properly. The cups in the room are not in the room but next to the toilet. When I tried to use a cup it had a big long piece of hair in it. Same with the coffee machine, it is very dirty and it is placed in the bathroom. There is no coffee or tea but only sugar. Breakfast... I tried to eat some cereals and found hair in those too. The waffle maker is not working properly. We tried to make waffles 3 times and it didn't work all 3 times. When we came in there were no plates so we had to wait. The buns for breakfast weren't cooked enough. Also there was no butter. Moving on, the pool, the room that the pool is located in was very foggy and very very cold. Also the roof was bad and there was water from the roof dropping into the pool. We couldn't resist it so we switched in 2 days to the hotel down the road El Camino. The price is way better and the conditions are much much better. The rooms and everything was clean. The breakfast was way better and the people at the front desk were very polite and nice.
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DisappointedPosted Jan 4, 2016 on Hotels
The location of the hotel is very good. The hotel is built with a central building for registration and check-out, the pool, and breakfast room. The rooms are organized into satellite buildings around the property. hen we checked in, we sere sent to room far from the central building, and the room had yet to be cleaned from the previous tenants. We were then given another room just about as far away as the first room, and it appeared to be one that is not often used. We were unable to access the WiFi in the room. When I asked for a change in the room, I was told there is nothing available, and there is nothing they can do about the WiFi. While the hotel appears very nice from the exterior, I do not feel I could recommend it to other travellers.
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Nice place to stay for a nightPosted Jan 3, 2016 on Hotels
Room was clean and staff was friendly, breakfast was ok.
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Never again, take it from your list of recommededPosted Jan 2, 2016 on Hotels
Disappointed with the hotel,and the service. 1) No service call being answered. I counted 3 Indian looking lady's hanging around 2) No micro waive and fridge in the room.3) breakfast was lousy, 1 waffel maker. where you had to fish half baked waffel out , 1 toaster installed approx 10" at the corner adjacent to the waffel maker- So everybody had to wait to get to the machines- With a second working pair of working machines for lousy $ 30 would have solved some of the issues. room door had open gap,so we could cool our coke. Also we got a very old TV with a bad picture quality. Our son's separate reservation was not received, so Expedia had to fax it again. had to wait for Don Fernado to call and 1 1/2 hours total time to waiting, Don Fernado accepted responsibility for mishandling
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Watch out for bedbugsPosted Jan 1, 2016 on Hotels
Had to switch rooms because of bedbugs in both beds. The next room was clean but just had bedbugs in the back of my mind the whole time.
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You get what you pay forPosted Jan 1, 2016 on Hotels
Not a great experience. Bed was not comfortable, heater made noises thru night, toilet ran constantly, door lock was loose, and something made me cough every time I was in room. Breakfast was only cereal & breads, & hotel service was non-existent. We checked out a day early cuz we couldn't stand it!
by A verified traveler from denver, co
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The staff was helpful and friendly. First impression of room: furniture out of place, counters dirty, trash not empty, food left in fridge and bathroom had not been cleaned or stocked. Very disappointed and hard to get past the initial dirtiness of the room.
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Avoid this hotelPosted Dec 31, 2015
This might have been an OK hotel once upon a time. It is now a dump. No towels in the room; I had to go to the desk to get them; they would not bring them to the room. The mattresses were completely shot and the bed frames were sticking out waiting to catch my leg when getting out of bed. The bathroom was dirty. Coffee maker but no coffee. Do yourself a favor and go with one of the low-budget chain hotels.
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If you have always lusted after a Golf GTI but couldn't quite reach the pedals, VW has announced that it will introduce this, the Polo GTI, at the Geneva show in March.
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The temple is crowded nearly all year round and is a favourite stop on the way to Sabarimala. All this makes a good darshan quite an achievement, but the long, hot wait, the cutters-in, the unholy jostling, the confused stumble at the last, are all forgot ten in one timeless moment that leaves everyone with beaming faces.
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Another legend propagates the fact that the idol of Lord Guruvayurappan mirrors the form in which the deity appeared to the mortal parents of Lord Krishna just before he took birth. Locals believe that Lord Brahma prayed at the Guruvayur Temple and the tradition of serpent worship is very rampant here. The popular festivals that are celebrated at the Guruvayur Temple are Astami Rohini, Chembai music festival, Ekadsi and Ulsavam.
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More Than a Tour de Force
The Accidental
by Ali Smith.
Pantheon, 2006,
$22.95 cloth.
The Accidental, the third novel by the Scottish writer Ali Smith (she is also the author of three collections of short fiction), is a simple storya fable, evencomplicatedly told. It begins, literally and disarmingly, with a bang. A young woman in a small-town movie house, excited by the actor Terence Stamp in a movie she is watching for the third time, leaves her seat, finds a boy about to close up the theatre café for the night, and has her way with him. The scene is described by the fruit of this encounter: "I am Alhambra, named for the place of my conception." The year was 1968. The movie was Poor Cow. However, it is an altogether different Terence Stamp movie that gave Smith the idea for this novel: Pier Paolo Pasolini's Teorema (based on his novel of the same title). In that film, a beautiful and fantastically charismatic young man arrives out of nowhere to disrupt and transform the lives of a bourgeois family and their maid. Of the five people seduced by the stranger (the role played by Stamp), only the maid is not destroyed.
In Smith's version, as in Pasolini's, we have a family of four: mother, father, daughter, son. It is 2003. The Smarts, Eve and Michael, are on summer holiday in Norfolk with Astrid and Magnus, Eve's children from an earlier marriage. The house they have rented, though "substandard" (to use a favorite word of sardonic twelve-year-old Astrid), comes with the services of Katrina the Cleaner, the only character to remain unfazed by the appearance of the magnetic stranger who shows up one day calling herself Amber and who seems to be none other than Alhambra grown up. When she appears, Michael assumes Amber has come to visit Eve. Eve assumes Amber has come to visit Michael. The misunderstanding is never cleared up, and Amber becomes part of the household, free to work her charms, for good or for ill, on each Smart in turn.
What kind of family are the Smarts? Middle-class, ordinary, unhappy. "Everybody...in broken pieces which won't go together," in the eyes of seventeen-year-old Magnus, who, when we first meet him, is broken indeed. A math and computer whiz, he has used his skills to participate in a prank that results in the humiliation of a girl at his school. The girl has committed suicide, and Magnus, consumed with guilt, decides he must do the same. He is saved by Amber, who happens to walk into the bathroom as he's preparing to hang himself. To Magnus, "Amber = angel." He's got good reason to think so. Having saved his life, she takes his virginity and proceeds to have regular, heavenly sex with him, mostly in the village church. Like her counterpart in Teorema, Amber less a human being than a forceuses sexuality to achieve her purposes, which remain, however, as mysterious as her coming. (Though she tells Eve a melodramatic but strangely convincing story about why she is, by choice, a vagabond, Amber later seems to forget this storyor is she just faking having forgotten in order to fuck with Eve's head, as she so obviously enjoys doing? Does Amber = con artist? The adults, at least, end up convinced she is this andafter they return to their London house to find it stripped of everything down to the doorknobs and carpetingworse.)
Though older than his usual objects of desire, Amber is equally alluring to Magnus's stepfather. A professor of literature, Michael is an incorrigible lech who preys on young women, mostly his students. Eve knows all about it but pretends not to, a moral delinquency perhaps more corrupting to their marriage than the adultery itself. Desire for beautiful blond Amber drives Michael, already in the grip of a midlife crisis, over the edge. One effect of his breakdown is that he begins thinking in sonnets, a chance for Smith to show off her marvelous linguistic gifts, which in fact are on display throughout the novel and constitute one of its major pleasures.
Eve, a best-selling writer (Smith often writes about writers), is suffering from a block, which may have something, or perhaps everything, to do with the fact that her success has been the result of a gimmick she hit upon several years before (a series of "autobiotruefictinterviews" in which real people who died during the Second World War are made to speak of lives they might have lived had they survived), and which she's too, well, smart not to be ashamed of. Wary of Amber, whom she disdains as "a gypsy kind of person...a skillful freeloader," Eve is also irresistibly drawn to her. (Tellingly, she will receive both the mother of all kisses and a black eye from Amber before the book is finished.) Though she doesn't know about Magnus's affair (a less self-absorbed mother, of course, would), she can't help seeing that Amber has bewitched Astrid as well. Relations between mother and daughter, strained before, only worsen with Amber's visit.
Before Amber arrives, Astrid, a lonely girl who is bullied at school, is bored out of her mind. Her parents have given her a video camera (a gesture that would no doubt fall under Astrid's long list of things "typical and ironic": an expensive gift in place of parental love and attention), and she's in the process of creating a kind of visual archive or journal. Clearly a future writer or filmmaker, Astrid is learning how to see, and Smith captures perfectly the inner voice and overwrought cogitations of the budding-artist sensibility on the cusp of adolescence. When Amber destroys the camera (her point seems to be that Astrid's obsessive filming is actually getting in the way of her learning to see), Astrid is shocked but unable to stay angry. Amber is like the incarnation of a child's imaginary friend. She is fearless, outrageous, and rebellious; she has magical powers, and she's endless fun. She is also a mine of information. Like Magnus, Astrid is amazed at how much Amber seems to know about so many different things, from the habits of bees to who invented the equals sign. (For the reader, this apparent omniscience encourages the notion that Amber = supernatural being.) The night she slips into Astrid's bed and cuddles against her, Astrid almost bursts her seams for joy.
Smith is a daring acrobat of a writer, and, the better to perform her breathtaking tricks, she has given her book a sturdy structure in the form of three parts, headed "The Beginning," "The Middle," and "The End" (which is, as Astrid would say, "typical and ironic" of Smith). Each part is divided into four chapters, and each chapter is told from the point of view of one of the four Smarts in turn. All together these narratives show Smith to be, among other wonders, a master of the use of free indirect style. Hers is the kind of prose in which, as in poetry, every word counts. Line by line, all is taut; there is no slackness anywhere. And no hot air. The effect is enthralling. The prose is full of riffsreal ones, not the verbal air guitar one comes across so often now in the fiction of Smith's generation of writers from both sides of the Atlantic. Here is Alhambra/Amber seeing her life flash before her in celluloid:
But my father was Alfie, my mother was Isadora. I was unnaturally psychic in my teens, I made a boy fall off his bike and I burned down a whole school. My mother was crazy; she was in love with God. There I was at the altar about to marry someone else when my boyfriend hammered on the church glass at the back and we eloped together on a bus. My mother was furious. She'd slept with him too. The devil got me pregnant and a satanic sect made me go through with it. Then I fell in with a couple of outlaws and did me some talking to the sun...I used butter in Paris. I had a farm in Africa. I took off my clothes in the window of an apartment building and distracted the two police inspectors from watching for the madman on the roof who was trying to shoot the priest. I fell for an Italian. It was his moves on the dancefloor that did it. I knew what love meant. It meant never having to say you're sorry. It meant the man who drove the taxi would kill the presidential candidate, or the pimp...I had my legs bitten off by the shark. I stabbed the kidnapper, but so did everybody else, it wasn't just me, on the Orient Express.
My father was Terence and my mother was Julie. (Stamp. Christie.) I was born and bred by the hills (alive) and the animals (talked to). I considered myself well in, part of the furniture...I rose inch by inch with the international rise of the nose of Streisand, the zee of Liza. What good was sitting alone in my room?...
But it's all in the game and the way you play it, and you've got to play the game, you know.
I was born free, I've had the time of my life and for all we know I'm going to live forever.
Smith's writing is so fine, it is naturally the first thing one wants to praise. Her cleverness and exuberance, her unflagging verbal virtuosity, delight the reader page after page. But stylistic tour de force is hardly Smith's only concern, and though The Accidental is not a realistic novel, its characters are not only believable but brimming with life. Smith goads them-and the reader as well-to confront hard questions about sin, guilt, and moral complacency. The eye she turns on the Smarts is as penetrating and as fierce as Muriel Spark's. But we never get the sense, as we do often with Spark, of Smith pecking and pecking away at her characters with a sharp little beak. Neither romantic nor sentimental, Smith is a deeply humane writer, with a heart as big as George Eliot's.
Rich as The Accidental is, I finished it still hungry. It hasn't been easy for me to figure out why. (Part of it could well be that I was simply hungry for more Smith.) But perhaps there's a clue to be found in an interview Smith gave when the book came out in the UK, where it won the Whitbread Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. (Smith's previous novel, Hotel World, also made the shortlist for the Booker, in 2001, and was shortlisted for that year's Orange Prize as well.) Smith told the Guardian Unlimited that she considered The Accidental "a war novel." This surprised me, for though the war in Iraq is mentioned a few times, I can't imagine any reader remembering this book afterwards as a war novel.
There is no bad writing in The Accidental (indeed, Smith appears to be incapable of bad writing), but there is one place where I believe she falters, and it happens to be the place where the war is referred to at greatest (if not very great) length. The passage comes toward the end of the book, when Eve, who is traveling by herself, is shown holding a copy of a New York newspaper. In the paper are photographs and reports of the abuse of Iraqi prisoners of war by members of the American military, including one photo of a young woman grinning and giving the thumbs-up sign above a corpse. "[Eve] didn't know...whether to keep looking or to stop looking. There was no answer to it. It was itself the answer. She was living in a time when historically it was permissible to smile like that above the face of someone who had died a violent death." ("Historically"?)
When I read this passage, I felt that it was not so much Eve's helplessness I was witnessing as Smith's; that it was the novelist who, having set her story at the same time as the invasion of Iraq, is unable to decide whether to look or to look away, and who fails to come up with an answer to the question haunting writers everywhere today: what should fiction make of a fact such as Abu Ghraib, which is clearly the subject of the newspaper report referred to, but which Smith for some reason does not name? I could not help thinking of the famous exchange between the poet Anna Akhmatova and a woman standing behind her as they waited in line to try to find out about loved ones arrested during Stalin's reign of terror. "Can you describe even this?" the woman whispered. To which Akhmatova tells us she replied: "I can."
Which brings me back to the hunger I was talking about, and the feeling I had that Smith might have wanted to say something more. This capacious novel seemed at moments to be reaching to embrace yet another story, something besides the mostly comic tale of one broken family or an updated variation on Pasolini's Christian-Marxist fable.
Because people of conscience still walk among us, we now know that what happened at Abu Ghraib was neither the first nor the last such incident, that American men and women have been in the habit of mentally and physically torturing Iraqis in detention, both in order to gather information and for sport, since the war began. Ali Smith is a novelist of immense skill, courage, and moral intelligence. If anyone can describe the terror that has become "permissible" in our own dark time and tell us the ugly truths that this has to say about us, maybe she can.
Sigrid Nunez's fifth novel, The Last of Her Kind, came out in January of 2006, as did a new edition of her first novel, A Feather on the Breath of God. She lives in New York.
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