Solar Storms: Chapters 20 to 21

________ are everything

Beginnings

When did Bush annd AW walk into another beginning/

When they returned to Adam's Rib

What was seen on the surface of the water in Adam's Rib

A red plastic tablecloth and dead fish

What trees were left standing after the flooding at Adam's Rib?

4 pine trees. Those will also eventually turn into pine skeletons.

What did Bush and AW bring back to Adam's Rib

Only cash

What did AW half expect at AI's house

AI to be there, saying "Look at you, you are a woman"

When did AW miss AI the most?

When she stepped into AI's house

What was on the cot at AI's house

Leaves and mouse droppings

Upon not seeing Husk, AW as scared that

he had died

What did Bush do while Angel went to find Husk?

She cleaned Agne's house while crying.

AW and Tommy are

small, awake in the forest, stepping out of clay, as precious as earth adn diatoms

How did Husk look

poorly, baggy pants, wrinkled shirt, dropped eye

What clothing did Husk buy that was a setup and payoff moment

permanent press slacks

Why did Bush wax the linoleum of AI's house

to make it presentable for water

What did Tomy and LaRue do on Fur Island?

tommy trapped animals to transport them back to the mainland and LaRue towed Spider Island

While going to the sinking Fur Island, what did they see?

a wooden ironing board.

What happened to the Hungry Mouth of Water?

It closed.

Why was LaRue crying?

A green furred animal: last of its kind was shot by one of his consumers.

Tears are ___________

What we carry of an ocean

Perhaps we must become _________ if we are to be transformed

sea

When AW was waiting for Tulik, what was she thinking about?

How pavement is only a thin shell and the plants will grow over it

Tulik looked __________ in the city?

feeble

People stared with curiosity at

Tulik

Tulik's wisdom was a ______

worn out belief that had no place in this new world where even the walls were made of lost lives and worlds of men like Tulik's

Tulik says what is a waste of money

barbers

AW thought the haircut made Tulik look

ridiculous

What gift did Tulik give AW in the city/

The last of the sleeping potion

wHAT did tulik and AW eat together?

American pie and coffee

What did Tulik call American pie?

Apple baked in a skin.

Tulik had lost his

inner peace

What did AW and Chiquita rent out>?

A kitchenette

After court, all Tulik wanted to do was

rock Aurora

What did Tulik call the courthouse

House of Units, Measures and Standards

Who was listening to the testimony

Aurora

What was AW overwhelmed by?

sitting all day

When do court sessions start?

9

Like a snake, AW

emerged from old skin and eyes, fresh, seeing clearly

What are the cruel tricks of nature?

How whales have to surface to breath and expose itself to predators. How the white tails of deer and rabbit makes itself visible when running away. How humans tend to destroy themselves

Asking whether people who stole the land are now at peace is like asking

if infinity had bitten off the end of its circular flight

What is always at the edge of AW's dreaming, and what can bring it to mind?

HW. an icy wind on a warm day, a bad feel, an account of a child's injury

What did HW walk out of?

The rifles of "our" killers

Why did HW hurt AW?

Because AW was part of HW and HW hated herself

Why was HW's last name wing?

Because she had invisible wings like the wolverine painting. AW hopes HW is now living in a place where she can spring her wings with a love she's never known in her life

Who is the first woman

Old Mother

What does the voice inside AW's ear say to her?

"Get up", "Offer cornmeal to the morning people", "Be slow"

AW have stood in teh way of

fireballs and asked tehm to fill her

Maps are only _______

masks over the face of God, and it is not the masks but rather humans who have lost the way, but the way is patiently waiting for our return

Why could Bush not go to DR's death/

Because she couldn't leave the old people or her plants

Tulik's story about humans asking to have everything

Asked large bird for flight, mole for tunneling, and water for unbound living, but water rejected them because they had forgotten to ask to be human

Where did DR die?

Near the 3 leaf plants that Tulik had collected for AW's burn fever

DR saw a non-existent

rain cloud, but soon it began to rain

What did AW do at DR's death?

sang the animal-calling osng

What animals came to DR's death?

Wolve, bear,eagle, wolverine

Constellation of animals

Wolf, Badger, Wolverine, Fish

Which constellation has Angel never seen before?

Wolverine

What did Aurora Borealis remind AW of?

Spiderweb or fishnet, or lines of a pregnant woman's belly

The earth is only a little ________

boat with men and women, floating across the dark blue face of a god

Sometimes, AW hears AI saying what?

Once the whole world was covered in water

Sometimes, AW hears DR saying what?

That a human is alive water, that creation is not yet over.

AW can feel whom touching her shoulder or brushing her hair?

DR, sometimes thought twas wind.

Why did early people painted animals on teh inside of caves?

According to Bush, it was because they knew something wonderful lives inside humans