ADA: ‘Who cares for Sustermans,’ observed Lucette, with
something of her uterine sister’s knight move of specious response, or a Latin
footballer’s rovesciata.
No, it’s an elm. Half a millennium
ago.
‘His ancestor,’ Van pattered on, ‘was the famous or fameux Russian admiral who had an épée duel with Jean Nicot and after whom the Tobago Islands, or the Tobakoff Islands, are named, I forget which, it was so long ago, half a millennium.’
...airplane
disaster of the young century, a gigantic flying machine had inexplicably
disintegrated at fifteen thousand feet above the Pacific between
Lisiansky and