translucid

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Occupations She is a comic book writer whose works include “Translucid,” and an author of “The Amory Wars” book series.

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In his mind he plunges into the watery graveyard of the Atlantic: “He sees himself as bone powder transforming into seaweed and rusty chain links. He sees skulls sheltering translucid fish.”

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Even if there were snickers for the official descriptive — “like an immense leaf undulating at the level of the tree tops, a fluid, light and translucid envelope” — approval outweighed disapproval, at least among its inexpert visitors.

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“The transmutation of sensation into sentiment,” he wrote, “the ebb and tide of memory, waves of emotions such as desire, jealousy and artistic euphoria — this is the material of the enormous and yet singularly light and translucid work.”

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The expansive bases of these mountains, nearly approximating, descend to a finely-wooded fertile valley; through which the river Usk, rushing from a majestic portal of wood, winds in a bright translucid stream, with all the impetuosity of its mountain p. 305character. 

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