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The 2010 Mercury Online Charity Auction is Over!
Thanks so much to everyone who donated to the auction and to everyone who placed a bid. You helped make the 2010 Mercury Online Charity Auction an overwhelming success.
This year's charity of choice is The Raphael House (raphaelhouse.com), a local nonprofit that assists survivors of domestic violence and their families!
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Martin Ontiveros
The art of Portland's own Martin Ontiveros graced the very first cover of the first Mercury ever (Vol. 1, No. 1, June 1, 2000), which set the tone for our next two billion issues. It's cute! And creepy. Creepy cute!
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Crowd sourced by readers of the Mercury's Blogtown and internet-famous Portland artist Andrew Zubko, we all came up for the idea for this one, appropriately titled, "Betty White with a… more »
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Artist Jen Corace has graced the cover of the Mercury no less than five times (!!) and with good reason: her work is gorgeous, innocent, and awwwwesome. This particular piece… more »
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Owning both for the first time, I must say that there is a similar feel and texture between the two. Though Magnetism is quite unique with its distinct aroma of root beer/Dr. Pepper top notes, the powdery, sweet and ambery base that's left resembles Baldessarini's Ambre quite a bit.
Having worn Ambre on my wrist for a day, I find it to be similarly potent or heavy, providing a similar experience in terms of projection and longevity. With all these parallels, I can recommend it as a replacement with the caveat that it shares a similar smell and feel while being distinctly and noticeably different. Thoughts??
Spring/Summer Rotation:
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Kenzo Pour Homme (vintage)
Dolce & Gabbana Pour Homme (vintage)
D& G Masculine
Christian Dior Dune
Guerlain Homme (EDT)
Bond No9 Riverside Drive
If smelling good was a crime, I'd be serving a lifetime sentence....
- OE (olfactoryexperience)
Escada Magnetism is far better than the other IMO.


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The proposal from Montgomery County Sen. Jamie Raskin would increase the penalty for hazing from $500 to $5,000.
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The program of the conference has been updated on Thuesday 31 March 2015 and is now available on the website!
The Augustin Cournot Doctoral Days is an international event dedicated to the promotion of excellence in doctoral research. The conference aims to provide Ph.D. candidates with an academic platform to present their latest work, discuss with senior researchers and share ideas with other international colleagues in the cosmopolitan European capital. This year for the 12th edition of the Augustin Doctoral Days, it is an honour for the University of Strasbourg to announce the participation of Louis Eeckhoudt (IESEG School of Management) and Liêm Hoang-Ngoc (Université Paris I Panthéon Sarbonne) as key note speakers at the conference


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"There was never a 'beginning' for My Midnight Heart", Angélica says, "I had been gigging and writing songs as long as I can remember, but eventually I noticed them shifting and taking a more defined shape--so I decided to let go of the acoustic singer/songwriter thing and start a band." Following the direction of her music, the group--then a trio , began playing under Angélica's first name at NYC's rock bars in 2010 with a massive Noise Pop sound. However, the project came to a halt, when Angélica began touring with the Trans Siberian Orchestra in 2011. "Singing with TSO was difficult honestly", she says, "It was such an intense schedule that I really had to put my music completely aside; let it die for a while."
Although the band started performing again after she returned to New York months later, the project didn't fully resurrect until almost a year after a period of concentrated song writing and experimentation. Previously heavily guitar based and strongly influenced by PJ Harvey's "Rid of Me" and The Kills' "No Wow"; Angélica now turned to echoing pianos, dreamy synths, and parred down, washy vocals. "I began to realize that the songs and the sound weren't really about 'me' anymore." Angélica comments, "They had taken the shape of something darker inside me. I knew couldn't call the band 'Angélica' anymore."
My Midnight Heart takes it's name from the first single "Midnight Heart". "It was the first thing I thought of when someone asked me what I was calling the project--and probably just because it's in the first line of the lyrics." Angélica says, "But now it seems perfect to me." My Midnight Heart is about the dreams and fears hidden deep inside us. Things we hide even from ourselves. "And when you say "My Midnight Heart", it becomes 'yours'. The name forces you to identify with the music. That's what it's all about", Angélica adds, "Empathy."


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Windows 7 could be rightly described as the most user friendly and stable operating system released by Microsoft. With the least number of errors and a highly responsive interface, the OS continues to be a favorite for many. However, as the Windows 7 support team says, there are a few issues being reported about the platform. One such issue which is not that bothersome, but still slightly deterring, is that of the random disappearance of taskbar icons. Here, we give you a comprehensive account on how to resolve such issues.
The disappearance of icons is one issue that seems to spoil the show of the new Windows 7 taskbar. Obviously, missing taskbar icons would hamper your computing experience, as you won't be able to open your frequently accessed apps. The symptoms of such an issue can be discerned when you try to click on a particular icon and it disappears or when it is missing from the taskbar. As such, you can view the taskbar as an area without any icons present corresponding to your frequently accessed apps.
How to Restore Icons?
As the Windows 7 support team says, in order to restore icons in your Windows 7 taskbar, any of the following methods may be performed:
- Navigate to the "System Properties" window to find the option for placing icons in your taskbar.
- Also, you can click on "Start" and drag and drop the frequently used app icons onto the taskbar.
- You may also right click on the taskbar and enable the various options by selecting the tools and apps of your choice. In any case, do ensure that the lock option for the taskbar is enabled once the settings are configured.
Perform a System Scan
As the Windows 7 support team says, any viral intrusions or file corruptions could also trigger the issue in question. Certain malwares that enter your system may alter your taskbar specifications and cause other dreadful issues. Hence, conducting a thorough system scan is very much in order for detecting and fixing any such issues in your system. This, when done, you can restart your PC and enable all your taskbar icons.
The above account would surely prove helpful in fixing any issues with your Windows 7 taskbar.
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You Can't Catch It If You Can't See It
Jered Weaver threw five innings of one-hit shutout ball while striking out nine (no walks), and Cubs pitchers were battered to the tune of 16 hits (including one triple, two doubles, and three home runs), as the Los Angeles Angels pounded a Cubs split squad 11-0 in Cactus League action at Dwight Patterson Field at HoHoKam Park in sunny Mesa, Arizona, this afternoon.
Carlos Zambrano made his last Spring training start in preparation for Opening Day next Monday in Atlanta, and "Z" did not have his best stuff today.
He pitched four innings (73 pitches - 45 strikes), and actually looked OK in the middle of his outing, even retiring eight of nine hitters at one point.
But it was the beginning and the end that wasn't too good.
Zambrano gave up a lead-off single to Maicer Izturis in the top of the first, but then got some serendipity when, with Izturis on the move (big jump) and Cubs shortstop Ryan Theriot running over to cover second base, #2 hitter Mike Ryan lined a shot right at Theriot, who caught the ball at his shoetops and then easily doubled Izturis off 1st base. So two outs, nobody on base. But then Brandon Wood ripped a single, and clean-up hitter Mike Napoli blasted a home run off the scoreboard in LF to give the Angels a 2-0 lead.
Zambrano more-or-less cruised through the next couple of innings, getting the first man he faced in the 4th (Mike Napoli) on strikes (swinging). But then Zambrano walked Robb Quinlan on four pitches, and local lad Peter Bourjos roped a triple into left-center, scoring Quinlan. Terry Evans followed that with an RBI single (Evans had five hits and three RBI today), before getting picked-off 1st base as an alert Geovany Soto made a pinpoint throw to nab Evans as he tried to get back to the bag.
Sean Marshall worked an easy nine-pitch 1-2-3 5th (6-3, F-9, 5-3) in relief of Zambrano, but then Jeff Samardzija got hit hard in the 6th, allowing a two-run HR to Peter Bourjos and two hard-hit singles. The Shark just could not keep his pitches down today, and Cubs Manager Lou Piniella really should be worrying about his bullpen if Samardzija has a featured role in it.
With the Cubs down 6-0, rookie LHP James Russell entered the game in the 7th, and the Angels proceeded to load the bases on three straight singles, although one was an infield hit to short (Ryan Flaherty could knock it down but was unable to field it cleanly) and another was a routine fly ball that Marlon Byrd lost in the sun (by my count the 4th time he has done that this Spring... but I guess if you can't see it, you can't catch it, even though most-other outfielders out here don't have that much trouble doing it).
But Russell actually responded pretty well to his bases-loaded & none out jam, getting the next three hitters on a strikeout (swinging), a ground out, and a fly out, keeping the damage to a minimum (just one run, and it was his first earned run allowed this Spring, too).
Justin Berg got hit like a BP pitcher in the 8th (allowing two runs on two doubles and a single), and Esmailin Caridad gave up a long two-run HR in the 9th to 5-for-5 man Terry Evans, although Caridad did get two punch-outs in his one inning of work (the first and last men he faced in the inning, both swinging).
The Cubs offense was truly offensive today, getting just two hits (a broken-bat single by Xavier Nady with one out in the bottom of the 2nd, and a line-drive single to left with one out in the 9th by AA 1B Russ Canzler, who was up from Minor League Camp for the day).
The Cubs did load the bases in the 8th on walks (actually the Cubs drew four walks in the inning) but failed to score. Nady walked to lead off the inning, then was erased when Alfonso Soriano rolled into a 5-4-3 DP. Then Darwin Barney, Geovany Soto, and PH Brandon Guyer each drew walks, before Ryan Flaherty struck out (looking) to end the inning.
While one Cubs split squad was getting squelched ugly in Mesa, the other one was blowing a 6-4 8th inning lead against the Brewers in Maryvale.
Rookie RHP Jay Jackson started the game for the Cubs, and he would have thrown four shutout innings except for the Prince Fielder 3rd inning grand slam.
The Cubs did come back, though, scoring three in the 5th and then three more in the 7th (the big blow being a Micah Hoffpauir two-run PH double that gave the Cubs the lead). But then Iowa Cubs right-handers Alessandro Maestri and Brian Schlitter imploded in the 8th, as the Brew Crew scored eight runs, giving themselves a big lead they would not surrender.
The Cubs play the Colorado Rockies at HoHoKam Park in Mesa tomorrow.
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Is there anyone else here who wants to cover their eyes when the 6 spot comes up? If it were LaRussa, Soriano would be batting 9th after Zambrano, Dump, Gorz, maybe even Silva.
Isn't there a mercy rule that just gives him an 0-2 count when he steps in? One pitch and I can anticipate the next batter, and uncover my eyes. Lord, where's his doghouse?
And the Blackhawks think Huet is going to help in the playoffs...
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awww...soriano is looking a lot more in control this spring, imo.
still, it's like not it would take much for that to happen. it at least looks like he's getting back to his "old" swing with a lot less motion in the front foot (and none of that stupid back-foot loading crap he was playing around with the past couple years).
i just hope he's capable of 25 homers...oh yeah, and stays healthy...oh yeah, and doesn't murder LF any more than he usually does...
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If LaRussa were the manager, Soriano would not be batting 9th unless the Cubs somehow also got Pujols.
LaRussa bats the pitcher 8th only because he wants Pujols to bat in the third spot in order to get a few more at bats over the course of the season, but also wants at least three batters to bat before Pujols as much as possible, to increase the chances of having him come up with runners on base.
If Pujols retired tomorrow, LaRussa would once again have the pitchers bat ninth.
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Fucking finally a decent late inning option to go with Marmol.
(according to Stark) Cubs trade Colvin, Caridad for Jason Frasor. Was the price too high?
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Link please
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Carlos -- You were five minutes too early. Nice try though.
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Whaa? It was already April Fools' on ET!
Sportswriters love this Vendetta
they can't let it rest...this time it's Trib's David Haugh
And thanks to one of Hendry's best moves ever, they don't have Bradley, which is like removing asbestos from the clubhouse.
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i can think of about two dozen better moves than having to get rid of a mistake signing and taking on carlos silva in a roster spot to make up for it.
seattle is trying to figure out whether they should bat bradley 3rd or 4th and the cubs are trying to justify giving carlos silva the #5 spot in the rotation after a battle with samninja.
how about dubois to gerut to lawton to berg? =p
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Well..the Cubs could have signed Bobby Abreu like I wanted...
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Happy 2nd anniversay of Trans Rob G Fake Internet Fight.
LaRussa with 6 outfielders...
A lot of teams, when filling out their roster with spare players, would look for some real balance. But not the Cardinals. Stavinoha, Mather, and Craig are all right-handed hitters who don't throw (or field) particularly well.
I'll tell you what, though: When those enemy managers bring in those left-handed relief pitchers in the eighth inning, Tony La Russa will be ready.
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Silva is fat.
That is all.
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Silva is fat.
I wonder if Silva has an ugly brother with glasses and a moustache that looks like this guy with a sun tan...
Q&A with Ricketts
on Lou's future...
TR: That's between Lou and Jim. It's Jim's responsibility to put the winning team on the field, both players and managers. I think that if you insert yourself into that discussion you're not adding value, for one thing, and secondly, you want accountability. It's Jim's responsibility and he knows it. He and Lou will tell me if there's anything else they want to add to the discussion.
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thank god...
a hands-off owner. give up the money, go the games, enjoy the perks...let the baseball men do baseball things.
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Yeah, that's what's been wrong with the Cubs for the last hundred and one years.
Especially that micro-manager Sam Zell.
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i just don't want a steinbrenner-like ass clown putting his dim head and clumsy hands all over something he doesn't understand.
Soriano 2/2
with a stolen base off the lefty Jeff Francis
Silva 5 shutout innings so far
including today, he's thrown 19.1 IP, 3 ER, 1.42 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 20 H, 9 K, 2 BB since that first disastrous outing and Rothschild allegedly fixed him by moving him to one side of the rubber.
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I credit Greg Maddux for fixing Silva. He was the first guy out there working with him. But, FWIW, Silva thanked both of them and the Doughnutman as well...
He credits the apparent turnaround to Greg Maddux — "his jersey is hanging in my house" — and pitching coach Larry Rothschild for making mechanical adjustments, plus Cubs management for not worrying about his weight.
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silva is fixed?
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silva is fixed?
that was Pie with the twisted testicle
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Good. We certainly wouldn't want a whole litter of little Silva's shitting all over the clubhouse and chewing up the furniture.
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*high five*
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That Marmol v Tulo at bat was downright cruel. First a fast ball at his head to go 3-1, then two sliders on the outside corner to ring him up.
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April Fool's joke on Chris Robinson that wasn't...
Lilly to throw 60 pitches on Sunday at Fitch park
Lowest Cubs home attendance for spring training since 2003 (150,000+ this year, over 200,000+ last year)
kids can run the bases after Sunday games in April/May if you buy 4 tickets
Guzman says he'll be ready for next season...
"The pain is gone and I actually started therapy two days ago," Guzman said. "At least my shoulder is still attached to my body."
He expected to start throwing in six months.
"I'll be ready for next season," Guzman said.
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"April Fool's joke on Chris Robinson that wasn't..."
ha! btw, i hate this day. i'm a bit too pseudo-autistic =p to deal with having to mentally process every trivial piece of information fed to me for legitimacy.
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Lowest Cubs home attendance for spring training since 2003 (150,000+ this year, over 200,000+ last year)
Blah... last year was 203,105 in 19 games (10,698/game), this year is 152,493 in 14 games (10,892/game).
So they drew more per game this year, they just had less games.
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I blame the liberal media.
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Damn Fox News!
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does caridad tend to get frustrated quickly?
he's rushing his stuff right now and visibly upset over nothing in particular except some pesky baserunners he let on early.
I would like to personally thank the new Batting Coach God for the great results he has spawned with Geo Soto(.400, .257, .229) and K Hill (.132BA).
Nice work RUDY!
If Soto performs like this in the regular season again, good luck Cubbies!
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Who cares? Its spring training.
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I CARE based on the former ROY catcher who sucked ass in 2009, and has done nothing to impress in a month+ of the spring in 2010 - except he is mighty svelte right now.
It is certainly continuing a trend that needs to end. Show SOME kinds of life here.
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To be fair, Tyler Colvin, Ryan Theriot, Mike Fontenot, Starlin Castro, and Brad Snyder are all going to bat over .350 for the Cubs this year, and Marlon Byrd is going to pass his career high in HRs. Also, Carlos Silva is going to be good, and Dempster and Marshall are going to be first and second in the Cy Young voting.
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Why do you hate Zambrano?
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You're complaining about the catcher's batting averages? Okay.
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RF is actually easier to play than LF in PNC so I'd guess Schwarber is there and that's why he was playing it Friday but yeah I'd say that's hopefully accurate.
Guess for Wednesday's lineup: Fowler (CF), Schwarber (LF), Bryant (3B), Rizzo (1B), Castro (2B), Montero (C), Russell (SS), Arrieta (P), Coughlan (RF)
Dusty already has blue and red wrist bands.
/cmon dude
a day old, but fwiw...
Carrie Muskat @CarrieMuskat · Oct 4
Theo and Jed at Miller Park to talk to #Cubs Maddon and staff. Playoff roster to be finalized by Wednesday morning
I'm guessing the order is the other way around.
cc sab going into alcohol rehab, missing the post-season for the yanks.
no bud black? cold.
Break up the Cubs!
MLB.com throws out two names to manage the Nats: Dave Martinez and Wally Backman.
matt williams (WAS) fired...shocker. he lost control and confidence of that clubhouse way before papelbum got there.
having a roster chock full of egomaniacs and assholes doesn't help.
he won 'manager of the year' last year, fwiw.
If he were dealing with Chicago traffic, I would take my chances with the golf cart.
You can get to the MKE airport from Miller Park via all surface streets, no real reason to get on the expressway. Unless he is in a real hurry to get to Az.
CUBSTER: I would think a cab or a limo would get Motte to the airport faster than a golf cart. The maximum speed of a golf cart is (what?) maybe 15 MPH, which could actually be dangerous on an expressway.
from the Sunday Trib...
Reliever Jason Motte waved as he left the visitor's clubhouse at Miller Park on a golf cart en route to the airport to catch a flight to Arizona to start a rehab assignment.
Motte has been on the 15-day disabled list since Aug. 24 because of a right shoulder strain, but there's a possibility he could rejoin the Cubs if they advance deep in the playoffs.
Motte is scheduled to pitch in simulated games and in Instructional League games in Arizona.
8 in a row to end the year...let's do this playoffs thing.
shelby miller (ATL) finishes the season with a win, snapping his 24-game winless streak...because ATL bats are non-existent.
3.02 era, 1.25 whip, 205.1ip, 171K
6-17 w/l...ugg.
Totally independent of the Cubs winning or losing today, Dan Haren came into today's game having earned $2M of his potential $3M in performance bonuses for 2015.
By making the start (his 32nd start of the season) he picked up $500K, and he'll get the remaining $500K if he can throw at least 8.2 IP in the game (he was at 181.1 IP coming into the game, and he needs to reach 190 IP to get the remaining $500K),
It's a bit like the old "Bowling for Dollars" TV show, but of course Haren is actually "Pitching for Dollars."


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Captain Hans Moffat sat in his office, checking cargo manifests. A cup of coffee sat, steaming, on the corner of his desk. The latest load that Hermes carried was a mixed bag at best. A pair of deuterium tanks trailed the load that was strung out behind Hermes, followed by two Starfleet stasis chambers filled with vaccine for Rugalan fever destined for Beta Hydroxi Six, Kelvan's World. After that were five standard cargo carriers with an assortment of luxury trade goods. Each container was held to the next by a "belt and suspenders" system of force locks and duranium cables. Moffat had to figure his course after the drop-off at Kelvan's World so as to maximize his profits and minimize his fuel loss.
"Captain, uh, sir?" Terrence Lagos sounded a bit disturbed, even over the intercom.
Yeah, Terry, what is it?" Hans was more than a little distracted and didn't hear the catch in Terry's voice.
"Sir, I have a very strange object on the long-range sensors. It's … um, biological."
Hans dropped the padd he's been reading. "It's alive? In space?"
Now Terry sounded uncertain. "Not exactly, Captain. It shows up as a biological entity, but it lacks all of the usual life signs one would expect. I guess it could be a corpse but its kind of big, y'know?"
Hans sat and considered his reply for a moment. Terry wasn't the best operational officer in the galaxy but he'd been with the Hermes for over fifteen years. Hans trusted him enough to wonder what he'd found. "Terry, let's set a course that will allow us to get a tighter scan, as long as it doesn't cost us too much time. Who knows, maybe we can sell whatever it is to Starfleet."
"Yes, sir, we'll do that. We should have something more in an hour or so."
"Thanks, Terry." Hans picked his padd back up and began to read. His now forgotten coffee sat there growing cold.
Forty-seven minutes later by the ship's chronometer Terry hailed Moffat. "Captain, um, we have the object on the screens. You might want to come up here."
Moffat had been so immersed in his graphs and charts he's forgotten the earlier call and it took him a moment to respond. "Uh, yeah, I'll be right up." He got up and headed for the turbo lift.
On the bridge the navigator, Mercedes, and the head engineer, V'Shanti, were staring at the screen. Terry got up from the central chair as Moffat entered. "What the hell is that?" Moffat asked. Everyone was looking up at the peculiar brown object tumbling through space.
V'Shanti spoke, and his antennae bobbed a bit, signifying his agitation. "Hans, what ever it is, it's coated with a biological organism. Sensors say there is a fusion generator under all of that, as well as a number of commonplace materials. I think," and here his blue face scrunched up a bit, "that it is a machine but the outer surface is alive. It draws power from solar and cosmic background radiation to sustain itself. Without a closer examination I can't tell you anything else. I'm sorry," he apologized, "but Hermes's sensors don't have the refinement to tell us more."
"Do you think that it might be dangerous?" Moffat looked at Terry as he spoke.
"The scans aren't detecting any kind of viral agent or anything like that. I think we can take it aboard the shuttle deck if we run it through a decontamination cycle." Terry didn't sound overly worried so Hans made his decision.
"Go ahead and bring it in, then. Maybe Starfleet will be interested. V'Shanti, see what you and Bill can learn about it. If we give them a preliminary report the 'Fleet boys will be thrilled."
The Andorian engineer left the bridge as Terry began manipulating tractor beams to drag the unknown item on board. Moffat took the center seat and watched through the viewscreen until the strange object was out of sight.
Moffat was back in his office, monitoring the price of deuterium on Halifax Five when V'Shanti paged him. "Captain, we have finished a preliminary analysis."
Moffat pulled himself away from the subspace feed in a distracted fashion. "Analysis?" he asked.
V'Shanti sighed. "Of the object we found, Hans."
Moffat visibly shook himself free of his current activity. "Oh, right, the thing we found. So what is it?"
"Well, we still don't know what the biological sheath is made of. Underneath it is a Terran fusion reactor, a few square yards of transparent aluminum, about forty kilos of duranium and an assortment of metals and plastics that would seem to be mechanical wiring." V'Shanti paused for a moment, then continued, "Hans, we're also picking up what would seem to be a human corpse in the center of it all. Oh, and the whole mess is between three and four and a half centuries old. That's all I know."
Moffat rocked back in his desk chair, stunned. "Thanks, V'Shanti," he said, in a weak voice. Switching channels, he said," Terry, contact the closest Starfleet vessel and tell them we have something they may be interested in." Shaking his head, he returned to his reports. "Problem solved," he said to himself. He just didn't realize how wrong he was.
When the call from the Hermes came in Captain Niklesh Sanjay of the Oberth-class science vessel Cochrane was deep in meditation in his quarters.
"Captain to the Bridge." T'Mon's voice was devoid of emotion as always but the strength of its tone penetrated Sanjay's mantra.
"On my way, Commander," Sanjay replied. Sighing, he uncrossed his legs and rose, tugging at the hem of his tunic. It was a short walk from his room to the Bridge.
"Commander, what do we have?" His first officer turned from the main sensor and communication console.
"The cargo ship Hermes has taken aboard an unusual find. They are requesting that we take possession of it." As Sanjay opened his mouth, T'Mon anticipated his question. "It was a bit unusual in its composition and when I heard the description it reminded me of a report filed by the Enterprise." T'Mon stopped speaking and Sanjay was about to open his mouth again when the Vulcan continued, "Although I am relying on the Hermes's engineer's report, it would seem that they have found a cryogenics tube dating from Earth's late twentieth or early twenty-first century. The person encapsulated is apparently dead but the historical value of such a find…" His voice trailed off.
Sanjay knew that Earth history was, not a passion, but certainly an area of extreme interest to the Vulcan. "Very well," he said, "Make course for the Hermes, warp six."
"Thank you, Captain," T'Mon responded.
"Well, I'm just glad to contribute to the Federation's base of knowledge," Captain Moffat said from the viewscreen. From Sanjay's perspective, his face filled the screen completely. The sweat on his brow was quite apparent.
"Is something wrong, Captain Moffat?" Sanjay asked. Moffat shook his head emphatically.
"Not really, Captain. I just want to get on my way. We're carrying vaccine for the outbreak on Kelvan's World and I'm in a hurry to get back on course." Something about his demeanor raised warning bells in Sanjay's mind but he acted as though nothing was wrong.
"Of course, Captain. We're transporting the object to our cargo bay now. You should be on your way in a few minutes."
"Thank Go-I mean, that's great. Thank you, Captain." The viewscreen reverted to a starscape with the Hermes sitting in the center of the screen. Sanjay and T'Mon exchanged curious glances.
"Captain," Chief Engineer Korlu had an eager tone to his voice, "The package has been delivered. My men are working on it now." When Sanjay opened his mouth to reply the Hermes dashed to warp. T'mon's eyebrows climbed high.
"Very good, Chief. Let me know when you've found something." Sanjay glanced at the navigator's panel. Hermes was leaving at warp seven, a dangerous speed with the cargo she carried. With a sinking feeling, Sanjay turned the Bridge over to T'Mon and headed for the cargo bay. This just didn't seem like it was going to work out well.
Sanjay hadn't gotten very far when the inter ship hail whistled and the voice of Lt. Burke, Head of Security, echoed through the corridors. "Burke to Sanjay." Sanjay slapped his combadge.
"Sanjay here."
"Um, Captain, I'm at the rec deck. Sir, I haven't had a drink. I just got here."
Trying not to sound exasperated, Sanjay replied, "That's just fine, Lieutenant. What seems to be the problem?"
"Sir, uh, well…" There was a pause and then the security officer continued, "I've been talking to an …intruder, I guess."
Sanjay paused to consider for a moment. "You guess?"
Burke was decidedly uncomfortable. "Well, he's about four feet tall and he's wearing a tuxedo jacket and a pair of red shorts with big yellow buttons. And he's a mouse."
Sanjay didn't say a word. He began running tactical situations through his head for re-taking the Cochrane's recreational facilities from a deranged security officer.
"Captain?" Burke sounded sane but seriously distressed.
"Mr. Burke, why don't you, ah, ask our visitor where he or she came from."
"Uh, yessir," Burke replied. Sanjay switched off and began making his way towards the rec room. As he rounded the corner of deck four, seven very short men with picks and shovels walked past him in the other direction, whistling. Sanjay just gaped at them as they went by. He was reaching for the nearest communication panel when T'Mon's voice sounded through out the corridor. "Captain Sanjay, please respond." Sanjay slapped his combadge again.
"Sanjay here."
There was a pause and then T'Mon said, "Captain, it is my duty to inform you that two apparently intelligent Earth chipmunks have engaged the ship's computer in an argument about our current course. They are utilizing the secondary navigation station to do so." Sanjay almost had a chance to respond before T'Mon cut him off. "One of them is wearing what I believe is called a 'pith' helmet, sir, as well as a khaki vest." Sanjay sat down in the corridor, oblivious of the stares of passing crewmembers. Time passed. "Captain?" T'Mon asked.
"Tell the computer to ignore the chipmunks's commands and…just keep an eye on them for now." Sanjay stood back up and walked briskly towards the cargo bay. "Korlu, what's going on down there?"
The Tellarite engineer sounded perplexed. "Sir, whatever this thing is, the report from the Hermes supports what we've found so far. It's definitely an old-fashioned cryogenic unit. The bio-sheath around it will need some study. We're having problems taking readings, though. There's some kind of flying animal swooping on my technicians and they have to keep aborting their scans to duck. What kind of crap is this? Uh, sir," he added.
Sanjay pinched his nose. "Could you describe the creature, Chief?"
"Well, it's got four legs, it's kind of fat and grey and it has the largest ears I've ever seen." Sanjay remembered a trip he'd taken as a child to Paris and sighed.
"Chief, it probably won't hurt you or your technicians. Just find out all you can about the object."
"Aye, Captain," Korlu replied.
Sanjay headed for the turbolift. It opened and he stepped inside, his head still whirling from the reports he'd received. He barely noticed the other person in the lift until after the doors had closed.
"Hi, there!"
Sanjay's head jerked up at the figure next to him. And up. And up. The bear was scratching his head and smiling down at Sanjay.
Eyeing Sanjay's uniform, the bear said, "Sorry, pal, I seem to be underdressed for this occasion. I guess you could say I'm wearing." And he gestured with one meaty paw, "the bare necessities." The turbolift doors opened and Sanjay fled into the corridor.
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Click here to buy this bookEver since the publication of Kafka's major fiction in the
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Confronted with a new mode of fiction so stubbornly enigmatic and
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he defined as endless interpretability.
As early as 1934, however, Scholem's friend Walter Benjamin was
expressing unease with the very idea of such exegesis: "There are
two ways to miss the point of Kafka's works. One is to interpret
them naturally, the other is the supernatural interpretation." This
tart objection to interpretation still seems just. To interpret
Kafka's fiction is to coerce it into a framework of stable
meaning--sliding down the slippery slope toward allegory--that the
work itself seems devised to unsettle. Still, it remains unclear
what the alternative to interpretation might be. Benjamin's own
gestures toward an alternative in his two essays on Kafka are
immensely suggestive, but they are really no more than the
brilliant, episodic impressions of an imaginative reader.
Roberto Calasso's study, which covers Kafka's three novels, some of
the major short stories, and material from the diaries and the
posthumous fragments, reflects a resolute determination not to
interpret the master. In certain respects, Calasso is ideally
positioned to carry out this sort of project, and his sometimes
engaging book has been quite ably translated by Geoffrey Brock.
Calasso is not an academic, but the head of a distinguished
publishing house in Milan, and as a freewheeling literary
intellectual, he feels no obligation to obey the guild rules, or
recite the buzzwords, or do obeisance to the prestige networks of a
persistently self-regarding and insular academic world. He is a man
of immense learning (as his previous books attest), with a broad
command of historical detail and proficiency in all the modern
Western European languages as well as in Greek, Latin, and
Sanskrit. He established himself as an utterly original voice in
contemporary criticism with The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony,
which appeared in English in 1993. This idiosyncratic book is a
retelling of a good part of the corpus of Greek myth, including many
of the variants of the same stories. (That enterprise has some
bearing on his approach to Kafka.) Stated this baldly, the aim of
the book might sound simplistic, but in fact The Marriage of Cadmus
and Harmony is a subtle and persuasive reconstruction for moderns
of the mental universe of Greek myth, and it is a very rewarding
Calasso's other books exhibit some of the virtues, but also the
defects of the virtues, of this early study. He is always good at
making imaginative connections, and he is incapable of writing
anything without some bright ideas, but he also has a tendency to
speculate wildly, to spin out free associations between eras,
historical figures, writers, theologies, and political trends, with
a frequent invocation of sacred Sanskrit texts that blurs more often
than it illuminates. By the time one finishes The Ruin of Kasch
(1994), one wonders whether one has really learned anything--or
indeed, whether the book that one has just completed had any
identifiable subject. Literature and the Gods (2001), in some sense
the groundwork for K., includes some bracing ideas--such as the
proposition that the modern idea of the good community, which was
vehemently espoused by both Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany, is
actually "pernicious"--but the book also abounds in assertions such
as this: "Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the
thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being
alive." Like much else in Calasso, this is either profound (a
neo-pagan vitalist such as D.H. Lawrence would certainly have
embraced it) or not quite coherent, a mere gesture toward
This may sound odd, but there is nothing in K. quite so good as the
second paragraph of the book. After evoking in four swift lines the
stark beginning of The Castle, in which K. stands on the wooden
bridge staring up into the "seeming emptiness" in which there may
be a castle, Calasso observes:
Kafka sensed that by then only the minimum number of elements of the
surrounding world ought to be named. He plunged the sharpest
Ockham's razor into the substance of the novel. To name the bare
minimum, and in its pure literality. And why so? Because the world
was turning back into a primeval forest, too fraught with strange
noises and apparitions. Everything had too much power. Thus it
became necessary to limit oneself to what lay closest at hand, to
circumscribe the zone of the nameable. Then all that power,
otherwise diffuse, would be channeled there, and whatever was
named--an inn, a file, an office, a room--would fill with
unprecedented energy.
This may be as good an account of the strangeness of Kafka's world
and the reason for its bizarre coherence as anyone has offered, and
the comment about Kafka's plunging "the sharpest Ockham's razor
into the substance of the novel" is itself almost worth the price
of the book. One sees in a flash why Kafka differs so radically
from his master Flaubert.
The notion that there is something archaic about Kafka's fictional
world goes back to Benjamin, who actually spoke of a "prehistoric
world" in Kafka, but it must be said that Calasso makes excellent
imaginative use of the idea. A few pages on, he argues that in The
Castle the social order has been superimposed on the cosmic order:
"the majesty and the articulations of the old order are retained
even as the memory of it is erased." The result, he wittily
concludes, is that "the mythic landscape has lost its pigmentation."
Later he explains the seeming paradox that this purportedly archaic
imagination is repeatedly engaged with the circumstances and
institutions of modernity by proposing that "an archaic element ...
commingles with a contemporary element that hadn't yet any way of
manifesting itself. The result is a potent chemical compound no one
knows how to handle."
These are insights well worth pondering, but the problem is that a
local insight does not necessarily provide the grounds for a
sustained reading of a great writer. (The same problem besets
Benjamin, who is--in his Kafka essays but also more generally--a
master of the dazzling aperu rather than of sustained argument.)
Calasso, having registered in this fashion the pervasive
ontological strangeness of Kafka's fictional world, proceeds to
evoke that quality by tirelessly, and tiresomely, retelling Kafka.
This strategy is essentially the one he adopted for Greek myth in
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, but it does not succeed in the
same way here, as I shall try to explain.
A large part of Calasso's book is taken up with statements such as
the following. On The Castle:
K. quickly adopts the tone of one victimized by an abuse of power.
If, however, he were really incontrovertibly within his rights, he
ought at least to have in hand an official letter of appointment to
the post of land surveyor. But it seems that he never received such
a letter. A haze of mystification hovers around K., as around
everything done or said by Castle officials.
And on the infernal machine of pedagogic capital punishment of "In
the Penal Colony": "In order to reach a level of unquestionable
truth, knowledge must be inscribed--in the sense of incised--on the
body. Only in this way could one make sure that the word passed
instantly into the blood." Calasso offers a rationale at one point
for this procedure of close paraphrase and synopsis, in the form of
a quotation from Elias Canetti, who is virtually the only critic of
Kafka besides Benjamin who is cited in the book: "There are certain
writers-- very few, in fact--who are so utterly themselves that any
statement one might presume to make about them might seem
barbarous. One such writer was Franz Kafka; accordingly, one must,
even at the risk of seeming slavish, adhere as closely as possible
to his own statements."
Calasso throughout the book is perfectly willing to seem slavish. As
a result, very little that he says violates Kafka, and everything
is steeped in the spirit of Kafka, but not much illuminates Kafka.
To take the two examples I have just quoted, is there any reader of
The Castle who does not recognize that K.'s tone is that of a man
victimized by power, or that he lacks the authenticating letter
that would clarify his status? Is there any reader of "In the Penal
Colony" who could fail to see that the purpose of the Commandant's
machine is to incise the judicial truth into the body of the
condemned man?
The difference between retelling Greek myth and retelling Kafka
becomes apparent. Greek myth, after all, conjures up a series of
scenes and images that are bound to seem strange to most people at
the beginning of the third Christian millennium: a god raining down
in a shower of gold on the object of his lust, a taurine monster
coupling with a maiden, a loving wife pulled back to Hades when her
devoted husband casts a backward glance at her as they flee the
underworld. What all these stories were meant to suggest would
presumably have been accessible to an ancient Greek because he was
directly in touch with the living culture and the popular religion
out of which the stories issued. To moderns, such materials may
well be fascinating, but they are also likely to be a little
opaque, or simply alien. Calasso's retelling of the Greek myths
boldly helps us to see, from the immense distance of our own
cultural location, something of their imaginative coherence,
something of the way they constitute an account of the nature of
reality. But a restatement of Kafka's fiction, of what happens on
the surface of the novels and stories, however alert to nuance and
detail, is not especially helpful, because what is on the surface,
through Kafka's explicit design, is perfectly accessible to us.
The Castle may abound in uncanny and perplexing events and figures,
but we moderns (and postmoderns too) share the novelist's living
culture, and so we can follow K.'s predicament of attempting to
cope with a remote and seemingly perverse bureaucracy, and of
trying to establish a place for himself in a community that may not
even be a community, and that regards him as an incorrigible
outsider. Much the same could be said of Joseph K. in The Trial. Of
course he is an inveterate loner, a man extravagantly open to the
assumption of unspecified guilt, and someone whose human instincts
have been replaced by the habits of bureaucratic procedure; but it
is Kafka's genius to convert the pathological into the exemplary,
making his selfsubverting isolate a modern European Everyman who is
bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh.
The fantastic apparatus of "In the Penal Colony" is a little
different, obviously: it is a nightmarish extrapolation from the
world we know rather than an evocation of predicaments that we are
likely to share more directly. The preoccupation with guilt and
with imposing figures of authority is the very idiolect of Kafka's
own inner realm, but in an era in which authoritarianism would
assume the most devastating political forms, and in which, against
a background of corrosive skepticism and relativism, atavistic
longings for an absolute truth would variously assert themselves,
readers have little difficulty entering into the terrifying world
of Kafka's story. We may puzzle about what it means, but it draws
us in powerfully as experience. Understanding what "happens" in the
fiction is not a problem, and so the retelling of the tale does not
take us anywhere that an unaided reading would not.
K. does employ, episodically, a method of critical commentary that
supplements the predominant strategy of narrative paraphrase, and it
is to link what goes on in Kafka's fiction with other bodies of
literature and thought, and with other cultural artifacts and
historical events. Some of the references, predictably, are to
Vedic religion. Thus Calasso, having proposed, rather gnomically,
but in keeping with his perception of an archaic world in this
fiction, that Kafka's subject is a "mass of power, not yet
differentiated," goes on to say, "It is the shapeless body of
Vitra, which contains the waters, before Indra runs it through with
a thunderbolt." I am not sure that a mass of undifferentiated
powers explains much about The Castle; and when we move on from
that to this image from Vedic mythology, we find ourselves sunk in
an association that no doubt speaks personally to Calasso but is
not likely to be helpful to many readers.
The freedom of associative thinking in Calasso is palpable even when
the associations are less exotic. Though Herren could indeed mean
"rulers" as well as "gentlemen" or "lords," are the Herren who come
down from the Castle readily identified ("if only we give the word
enough room to resonate," Calasso says), with the archon of Gnostic
theology? There is much in The Castle that is patently farcical,
but is there any scene in the novel that resembles a Busby Berkeley
musical, as is claimed here? How plausible is it to describe the
representation of the chambermaids' room in The Castle as "something
out of an Elizabethan play"? And if there is some limited
justification for saying that the landlady at the Bridge Inn
identifies K. immediately as an enemy, "just as the high-level
agents of the Ochrana could spot a young terrorist in a shapeless
mass of students," is not the injection of czarist political
imagery into The Castle a distortion of the distinctive world of
this novel that, after all, has little to do with the ambience of
the Romanov empire?
The one respect in which the otherwise unexegetical Calasso begins
to slide toward allegory is in identifying the purportedly Jewish
references in Kafka. The Jewishness of Kafka's fiction has long
been a source of contention among critics. His correspondence and
diaries, and also the testimonies of his friends, provide abundant
evidence of his preoccupation with Jewish culture and tradition,
and the ambiguities of being a Jew in modern Europe--and yet he
scrupulously excluded all references to Jews from his fiction (with
the exception of one strange story involving an animal in the
women's gallery of a synagogue). Many readers have detected a
Jewish matrix beneath the universalizing surface of his fiction,
but there has been no consensus as to what it might be. Yet
Calasso, elsewhere circumspect in making statements about Kafka
that might be "barbarous," casts aside these restraints with regard
to Jewishness, not hesitating to sketch direct translations between
the fiction and the social and historical circumstances of modern
European Jews.
If K. gains entry into the home of the one family considered
outcasts in the village, Calasso feels free to state that "in
Olga's house, K. senses and recognizes that feeling of familiarity
that the assimilated Jew feels in the home of other assimilated
Jews." The reason for the family's ostracism was the rejection by
Olga's sister Amalia of a crude sexual overture in a letter from
one of the Castle officials: "Between Amalia's gesture of shredding
Sortini's letter and her father's grueling attempts to make his
petitions heard sprawls the gamut of situations that accompanied
the persecution of central Europe's Jews." And, not content to push
The Castle toward social allegory, Calasso goes on to make it
prophetic--surely a cardinal sin in the reading of Kafka--by
claiming that "what happened later, in the Hitler years, was first
and foremost a literalization of this process."
One expression of Kafka's commitment to giving his fiction a
universalizing cast is his rigorous avoidance of Jewish personal
names. The single, perhaps marginal, exception is the merchant
Block in The Trial. Block would in all likelihood have been
identified as a Jewish name by most German speakers of this period,
though a little less confidently than Cohen or Segal or Schechter.
But the rather modest hint conveyed by the name triggers a kind of
Jewish phantasmagoria in Calasso's reading of The Trial. Joseph
K.'s ambivalence toward Block, a fellow defendant, is explained as
his subjecting "the merchant to those violent oscillations between
attraction and aversion that assimilated Jews endured in the period
between the first emancipations and Hitler." Block in a kneeling
posture before the lawyer Huld has as his "model ... Moses before
Yahweh." Block scrutinizing a sheaf of documents bearing on his case
"appears to us as a Hasid immersed in the Torah."
When it comes to Jewish meanings, it seems, all interpretations are
permissible. With these invocations of the horizon of the Hitler
years, of Moses prostrate before the God of Israel, and of the
Hasid conning his text (an especially awkward identification--why a
Hasid?--that suggests a very limited acquaintance with these
materials), Calasso introduces into his interpretation of Kafka a
misplaced concreteness, which amounts to a kind of vulgarity--an
intellectual fault one would scarcely have expected of him.
As the identification of purportedly Jewish concerns in K.
illustrates, one way not to read Kafka is to draw equations between
figures and situations in the fiction and social or historical--not
to speak of theological or political-- phenomena that happen to be
of interest to the interpreter. This is interpretation with a
vengeance, the very activity against which Benjamin inveighed. The
more common procedure of Calasso's book, the retelling of Kafka's
texts, does not violate them in this fashion, though, as we have
seen, it also does not much advance the understanding of them.
What is a critic to do, then, with Kafka's fiction? Perhaps it might
be best to think of Kafka not as a visionary or a theologian or an
oblique social historian or some sort of radical heresiarch but,
before all else, as a writer of fiction. Whatever his spiritual or
philosophical or psychological concerns, he was a writer who had
studiously read many of the masters of European fiction (Kleist,
Flaubert, Dickens, and many others) and who aspired to be their
worthy heir and hence lavished great care in cultivating the art of
fiction. One reason that he asked Brod to burn his unpublished
writings was surely his sense that he had not sufficiently
perfected that art.
The novels and the stories of Kafka may well be dense with meanings,
some of them obscure, but they are first of all strongly imagined
fictional worlds, constituted through the use of a certain
narrative point of view, the deployment of a particular style, the
management of character and dialogue, the recourse to often quite
surprising metaphors, and the representation of concrete
entities--city streets, interiors, village houses, mechanical
contraptions, details of attire, and much more. In stubborn
opposition to all the critics who seek symbols in Kafka's world
(Calasso is not one of them, except perhaps in regard to the Jews),
I would argue that it is Kafka's fecund invention of concrete
details--sometimes startling, sometimes grotesque or uncanny,
sometimes compellingly mimetic--that generates much of the peculiar
magic of his fiction.
The nameless city of The Trial is built out of bits and pieces of
early twentieth-century Prague but serves quite arrestingly as a
European Everycity. It exists in a kind of space warp: it is never
quite clear how you get from one point to another, but somehow you
usually end up in claustrophobically narrow streets and alleys
crowded with urchins and stinking from open sewers, and every
building seems to turn into a warren of dark stairwells, airless
corridors, and dirty attics devoid of windows. As many interpreters
have variously proposed, all this can be seen as a projection of
Joseph K.'s oxygen- deprived sordid inner life, but is also the
artfully fashioned manifestation of an integrated fictional world,
faithfully drawn from certain observable realities of actual
European cities. Kafka was not a realist, but he had studied the
masterworks of European realism and adopted some of their
procedures for his own, different ends.
We will do more justice to Kafka if we ask fewer questions about
what he means, and direct less attention to the eons or the era
that he purportedly reflects or to the mythology that he supposedly
manifests, and instead look at the finely wrought and endlessly
inventive fashioning of the fictional world that he invites us to
enter in the traditional way: through the story told, the images
conjured up, the language used, the sense of character and place
indelibly evoked.
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MOUNT LAUREL, N.J., April 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ImpactRx, the pioneer in measuring the impact of promotion on physician prescribing behavior, announced today that Symphony Technology Group (STG), has acquired a majority ownership interest in the Company. STG is a leading private equity firm with a strategic focus on data, analytics and technology-enabled services companies. Merck Capital Ventures (MCV), the venture capital arm of Merck and one of ImpactRx's existing investors, will maintain its investment in ImpactRx. Under the terms of the acquisition, ImpactRx will operate as an independent STG portfolio company. Current President and CEO, Richard Altus, will continue to lead ImpactRx. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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