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Lee Tomkow, Santa Barbara, CaliforniaWhilst living in Beijing about a year ago, I came across a park in a residential area in the Shunyi district which (although intended for use as a 'dog park' was translated to 'Dog-Bark Park'. Not to mention an apartment building which, for some bizarre reason beyond my knowledge was named "An Australian Lady and Her Lifestyle".

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Some have taken novelist William Dean Howells line that that very notion is nothing more than a tantalising chimera,Michael Kors Outlet, a fantastical mythical beast that not only defies capture, but its very existence. Others, however, have made the hunt of it their lifes quest. The novelist Norman Mailer, journalist John Walsh reminds us, "believed in it utterly.. He called it the big one and dreamed of bagging it one day, as game hunters go after the big five of elephant, lion, buffalo, rhino and leopard." But if snared, what exactly would it look like? Walsh offers one of the most intriguing explications: "a single perfect work of fiction that would encapsulate the heart of the US, interpret its history through the light of a single, outstanding consciousness, unite the private lives of the characters with the public drama of its politics. It would be the War and Peace of the great plains and the Manhattan skyline."

"My eyes aren't so good and I wouldn't get the color right," he says.