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go with the latter w_â€"_ lighthearted bunch able to turn as many disparate ingrediâ€" be something to look forward to. into such intoxicating musical cocktails. Sex Pistols delay merely confirms what we suspected Filthy Lucre Live i Virgin Mellow Gold â€" that the guy‘s neither a fluke _ If these comeback tours must go on then I‘ll as he would have us believe, a loser. He‘s _ take the Sex Pistols over the Eagles, the Who id his stride and the smart betting says that _ and the rest of the highway robbers dragging vill continue to be one of the most imporâ€" _ their sorry reunion gigs from town to town. artists as we head into the next millenâ€" At least with the Pistols, they‘ve never preâ€" . tended to be in the game for anything more rixdiggit than the notoriety and the money. They still Nixdiggit | Sub Pop are, but what a surprise this live recording from ming across as adolescent miscreants with _ the tour of the same name. nk rock attitude and pop sensibility, this The playing is tight, the production dean and ary band blasts out of the gate with a you get every track from Never Mind The Bolâ€" iy, hummable, powerâ€"packed debut that‘s _ locks...Here‘s The Sex Pistols, now 20 years old t on time but long on earâ€"pleasing and considered one of the most influential ments. albums of the rock era. ixdiggit | Sub Pop ming across as adolescent miscreants with ik rock attitude and pop sensibility, this ry band blasts out of the gate with a , hummable, powerâ€"packed debut that‘s on time but long on earâ€"pleasing a boy, hidden away in a cranny in a wall, Jakob always believed in language, worked ~wmwmw with Hebrew, Greek, English, looking for soldiers. Athos, a Greek scientist, finds him _ answers, which he finally finds in other ways. the Polish city, more than halfway _ Having written to survive, he now writes to celâ€" and crazed. He smuggles him out of the . ebrate survival. When Ben, whose voice takes under his coat, > up the second part of the story, meets Jakob at him home to a Greek hillside, where he _ a party in Toronto, he is struck by the utter begin a long recovery. serenity of the man, who has burned away all reâ€"enters the world inch by inch, excess. by Athos‘ love, humor and care. He tells _ Greece may be darity, but Ben, like Jakob stories about far away places and about _ before him, learns that Canada is compassion: countryside, making a safe Naomi was blunt and sweet, a crayon, when for him: everything before her had been written in many months all | saw were stars. My blood. She blundered in with her openness, prolonged experience of the outside her Canadian goodwill, with a seeming was late at night; Athos let me dimb obliviousness to the fine lines of pain, the the bedroom window to lie on the tenderly held bitterness, the mesh of colluâ€" . Flat on my back, I dug a hole in the sions, the ornate restrictions ... She will ight sky. I inhaled the sea until 1 was lightâ€" honor privacy to the end. and floated above the island. Ben goes on a pilgrimage to "find" Jakob, to every page of this book records an understand the life of this man he admires. He ism, a bit of wisdom, caught like a rainâ€" has the clues of his poetry, and he goes looking in the sun: for his journal. He discovers that living in Jakob‘s ‘m a thief who has dimbed in through a house in Greece tells him a good deal more vindow only to find himself struck frozen by than any journal can. He retraces Jakob‘s life, feeling of homecoming. The impossibility _ and acquires a measure of the same wisdom. f it; the luck. Lines from poems, conversations, songs, and ights arise out of the characters‘ attempts _ readings repeat throughout the book. Fugitive nderstand, to come to peace with their pieces. Each time, the repetition takes on new est seives. I can open to any page and get _ meaning, echoes into older understandings and in the lyricism of the language, in the perâ€" _ brings them forward. lities of the people. This is a book "about" language, healing, hat is it about Greece? As I read these love: about random acts of kindness, which s, I can smell the sait water and see the have a value beyond estimation. in easy times, . In the uncompromising landscape, emoâ€" anyone can be generous. in difficult times, true and understanding burn dear. generosity and heroism show through. hos eventually accepts a position as a geogâ€" _ Judith Miller is an associate professor of English er at the University of Toronto, and Jakob _ at Renison College at University of Waterloo. vindow only to find himself struck frozen by feeling of homecoming. The impossibility f it; the luck. ights arise out of the characters‘ attempts iderstand, to come to peace with their est selves. I can open to any page and get n the lyricism of the language, in the perâ€" lities of the people. at is it about Greece? As I read these s, I can smell the salt water and see the In the uncompromising landscape, emoâ€" and understanding burn clear. Nos eventually accepts a position as a geogâ€" r at the University of Toronto, and Jakob o uniine x nenad Th e A e ieA :/ m.m:fio“fimt learns this new city, block assimilating m-mi“dmw bmm«:tt $ 9e haels Pleces is one of those English was a sonar, a microscope, through Aks. 7 which ! listened and observed, waiting to anadian women have written some intriguâ€" capture elusive meanings buried in facts. books over the last year or so: this is one of Through it all, Jakob carries the weight of his m. Like many poetic novels, this book is not . memories. He is never at peace, trying to live all ing on narrative, or _ 4 the lives of his family, t line, it meanders . _ especially his sister, whose n happening to hapâ€" . ;. “ fate he does not even ing, much of the _ .. know. What does he owe ogwMâ€"db; to the dead? Loysity to ting. The language them imprisons Jakob, k. > . . i ie 4 freezes his life in a still whose lives link in one way or another: edis. Sakob meets a :,b' M s on par, Suddenly, unexpectediy, ore imyfiqqumtluu:- "Every cell in my body has been replaced, sutâ€" h. Like many pOeUc Novels, UHS DOOK is not .. memories. He is ne " on nartative, of * momamnenint . h'“'“b. y + ) happening to hapâ€" © _ f “‘ g, much of the _ | is internalâ€"and fas | ling. The language .. UR 1 Govnbrals on badiaagtntiesata irach ME fused with peace." Jakob always believed in language, worked with Hebrew, Greek, English, looking for answers, which he finally finds in other ways. Having written to survive, he now writes to celâ€" ebrate survival. When Ben, whose voice takes up the second part of the story, meets Jakob at a party in Toronto, he is struck by the utter serenity of the man, who has burned away all excess. Greece may be darity, but Ben, like Jakob before him, learns that Canada is compassion: Naomi was blunt and sweet, a crayon, when everything before her had been written in blood. 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