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[sageofthpalouse]

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (opening sentence)

Afterwards, when the world was exploding around him and the lethal blackbirds were massing on the climbing frame in the

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[carol_da_queen]

I think you are spot on.
JUST hit the point in the Making of the Atomic Bomb when they do the test at Alamagordo. Could not put it down...read much too late...felt like I was there...a characteristic shared with Joseph Anton's compelling narrative too....a runaway horse in my mind.

[sageofthpalouse]

Runaway: a rare experience reading non fiction -- I mean, you know how it ends, right #8^)