... fragile fingers of men, donned with neoprene and gauges, reaching down to bustling reefs, those of the doctoral student or the tender digits of honeymooners banded with gold. Brightest of invertebrates, what would you know of letting go? I would assume not...

... do not offer free passage to open spaces. Instead, dangerous sea passages morph into equally obstructing land routes that do not pro- vide safe passage for the besieged wretched of the earth, either. The novel s reference to the migrants as jellyfish is not fortuitous given that these invertebrates...