the love route is a 1915 american western silent film directed and written by allan dwan based upon a play by edward henry peple .

the film stars harold lockwood , winifred kingston , donald crisp , jack pickford , dick la reno , and juanita hansen .

the film was released on february 25 , 1915 , by paramount pictures .

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the love route <EOT> route 94 - my love feat . jess glynne by route94 | route 94 | free listening on soundcloud

my 3 stars are contingent on 1 ) linking into the love route from better than love and 2 ) that the last pitch of the route is dry .

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route finding on the first few pitches is confusing . the large gully aaron speaks of is nasty and kind of loose , but really easy . as soon as you clear that though , the love route delivers . great climbing .

as recommended by david c . , we combined the first three pitches of better than love with the top pitches of the love route . we carried a copy of gillett ' s route description but found it very confusing when it came to the upper pitches . here ' s my attempt at a revised description :

skip the first three pitches of " crap climbing " by doing the first three of " better than love . " then finish on the love route , by heading straight for the big huge black roof above ( which provides the final 5 . 9 move to the summit ) .

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this is a good alternative to the culp - busy - eh ? . this past weekend there were 4 parties cued up for that route , and none for this . we did some so - so pitches to the right of the huge dihedral and then cut hard left for a full pitch to get back on the love route . the top few pitches of this route are outstanding .

here you can follow the love’s itinerary : a half an hour trail through the old town where visitors can enjoy the views of the mountains , the countryside and tuscan archipelago .

the giglio island , one of the most alluring islands of the tuscan archipelago , is another lovely place to experience the magic of love . visitors to the area are sure to note how the island truly reflects the quiet rhythms of nature . here , you can see the ‘lighthouse of love’ , surrounded by stunning pine forests .

neighboring ranchers john ashby and allene houston are in love , but their fathers ' violent feud over the route of the new x . y . z . railroad eventually drives them apart . colonel houston and . . . see full summary »

route 94 , who takes his moniker from the us highway between chicago , the birthplace of house , and the home of techno , detroit , is “over the moon” with his first ever chart topper .

one of my favorite song ever . i have the oportunity to listen route 94 live playing this song and of my happiest moment ever

signed to rinse , route 94 might just have what it takes to follow in their footsteps . new single ' my love ' is the kind of buoyant , fluoro - house which disclosure have made their own but with a pop twist .

this route is great even with the first three pitches . i didn ' t find the gully to be as lose and crappy as has been explained to me . they are easy though and not as thrilling as being on the exposed side of the buttress . one could even simul - climb the majority of the route before the black roof if you feel confidant on 5 . 7ish terrain . there is a good grassy ledge with a solid pin about thirty feet below the roof .

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tradition has it that in front of this masterpiece by a goldsmith , couples used to exchange vows of eternal love .

i agree with those above - start this route with better than love . with the btl start , pitches 2 and 5 ( both 5 . 8 ) are the best pitches of the route . after the first 3 pitches of btl , stick to climber ' s right . pitch 4 will be easy ( low 5th climbing ) , and pitch 5 ends at a button - head bolt belay . from there , it ' s a full 60m to the next belay at a fixed pin backed up with gear 20m below the crux roof . i think there are 4 pins on the crux route ( though i skipped one ) , and none inspire much confidence . a couple of the pins moved as i was clipping them . the crux was bone dry when i climbed it , and you get a jug to pull over the roof .

i just did this route today , and it is a spectacular climb . the rock is solid , and though the lower pitches aren ' t why people come to do this climb , they ' re still fun . they ' re easy , you can move fast on them , and the rock is great quality . clearly the upper pitches are the best on the route , but for anyone who enjoys a great alpine climb , this one is a beauty .

like many others , i would definitely recommend the better than love direct start . the second pitch was , in my opinion , more sustained and therefore a bit harder than the 5 . 9 roof . the second pitch has great pro and great rock . i would advise using a 60m rope as well . the party above us was able to combine the 5th and 6th pitch , both of which are runout . they were able to get to a good belay ledge and avoid my hanging belay on a questionable flake . also , we encountered the worst mosquitos the entire route , which made belaying a chore . i wish i had had some off . none the less , a very enjoyable route .

did you know that in tuscany there is a “village of love” ? located in the hills between arezzo and siena , lucignano is a small , walled medieval town , whose museum holds the only example in the world of a tree - shaped reliquary : the golden tree .

the roads of love are unpredictable and have no maps , but if you are planning a romantic holiday in tuscany we have created a tour through some of its most emotional spots .

the pitches leading up to the top of the triangular buttress are pure crap . . . recommend an alternate start to avoid the gully altogether . however , the last pitch , past the 4 fixed pins , and the long pitch leading up to it are absolutely fantastic !

my love features the vocal talents of jess glynne who collaborated with clean bandit on their former number 1 smash rather be ( a non mover at number 3 today ) . it topped the official singles chart for four consecutive weeks , and holds the record for the fastest selling single of 2014 so far .

they also say that this small church holds the tomb of the beautiful beatrice .

a bangin nu - house track about love . a heat - sensing flir thermal camera . a club night . these were the ingredients put together for this project , which ultimately . . .

could it be a smash hit single ? well , time will tell but until then route 94 has placed his new video online . shot using the same heat - seaking cameras employed by the army , you can watch it now on clash .

also known as the tree of love , it’s a sculpture in gilded copper and silver , over two meters high and shaped like a tree , with golden leaves , crystals and corals falling from twelve branches . on the branches there are sprigs of coral , representing the blood of christ .

neighboring ranchers john ashby and allene houston are in love , but their fathers ' violent feud over the route of the new x . y . z . railroad eventually drives them apart . colonel houston and the elder ashby are both killed in a fight , leaving john and allene to continue the feud , john accepting a position with the railroad company and allene swearing that it will never cross her property . allene is aided in her battle by the foreman of the houston ranch , harry marshall , an ambitious man who hopes to make allene his wife . after an intense struggle , one of allene ' s men shoots john , but even as she is winning the fight , allene realizes that she still loves john . in the end , allene herself lays the last tie just in time to save the company ' s franchise rights .

what about visiting a city where the streets are named with words like “love” , “kiss” and “good luck” ? we ' re talking about pienza , a city that most guidebooks describe as the birthplace of pope pius ii and also a unesco world heritage site .

in the south of tuscany , among vineyards and grazing lands , not far from the sandy coast , stands manciano : a town located on the top of a hill boasting some of the best panoramic views of the maremma .

viz . the end of my comment above . . . . . . don ' t check out the petit on the descent . you can ' t check out the petit on the descent . the petit is like 2 miles away from this route . i submitted this comment after doing a line on the sharkstooth , and beer muddled them up in my head . . . . . sorry . . . . . won ' t happen again . . . . . . . . . .

the route ascends the lower left - hand side of the second buttress . here , there is a subsidiary triangular buttress that ends at the great white band . p1 . on the right side of the triangle buttress , there is a low - angle , loose gully of junky 4th class climbing that can be reached by climbing a a 160 foot 5 . 6 pitch up a grassy , right - facing dihedral . this dihedral is the next main feature to the left of the culp - bossier . p2 - 3 . next , pick your way up the gully for about 300 feet . p4 . at the top , belay a 5 . 6 pitch that continues upward through the white band for about 160 feet . p5 . next , begin traversing right as you follow features up to a sloping ramp ( 5 . 6 - 5 . 7 ) . p6 . now , change your belay to the top of the ramp ( angling up and to the right ) for 50 feet . finally , the exciting crux pitch traverves to the right under a big roof . p7 . follow the steep line of fix pins and mank to the huge jugs at the top of the roof ( 5 . 9 ) . take a look back at the valley floor before cranking over the top . spectacular ! p8 . finish the route by topping out over another easy 5 . 6 roof to gain hallett peak ' s flat , sloping summit ridge ( 150 feet ) .

climb better than love to the top of the triangular buttress ( about 3 - 4 pictches ) . at the top of the triangle buttress , take the left side of a huge pillar to its top , as described . following this , i ran it out for a full rope length on runout 5 . 7 - 5 . 8 ? face climbing before settting a belay on a sweet ledge immediately below the black roof . there is a multitude of unnecessary fixed gear on the way up to this roof . exit the right side of the roof ( follow the pins ) , which i found easy for 5 . 9 .

the first three pitches up the gully / corner has a total of about 20 ft . of decent climbing , i thought . p3 is a bowling alley . be careful ! once you reach the top of the triangular buttress , though , this route is outstanding . the last three pitches ( or 4 ) get progressively harder and better . the belay ledge at the top of pitch 4 is a comfortable spot to have a snack and relax if you ' re not hurried . from here , you can combine the next two pitches and belay at another decent ledge about 75 ft . below the huge roof .

true or not , this place has become a very popular stop in florence and in front of the hypothetical tomb there is a basket full of messages that lovers leave to beatrice , maybe asking her to protect their love .

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6 . lead up the left - facing corner dropping from the right edge of the roof , 5 . 9 . there are several fixed pins in place but none of them inspire much confidence . angle left above the roof then continue to the summit .

4 . from the large ledge at the top of the pitch 3 ( or pitch 4 if climbing btl ) , climb the left side of a large pillar to a small sloping stance at the base of a right - facing flake , 5 . 6 .

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this week’s highest climber is avicii ’s addicted to you . the swedish dj’s track soars 28 places today to enter the official singles chart top 40 at number 36 .

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pienza also offers many charming stores where you can buy leather handicrafts , bijoux , soaps and…pecorino , an italian cheese made from ewes’ milk . this village even caught the attention of the director franco zeffirelli , who in 1968 chose pienza as the setting in which to film romeo and juliet .

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standard rack . make sure you have a few longer slings for the last pitch that goes through two roofs .

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jess glynne steps in on vocals , and the whole thing is a uniquely seductive package which would work well in any environment .

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5 . climb the right - facing flake , which leads to a right - facing corner . climb up this and move slightly left , then up to a ledge with two bolts ( possible belay ) , 5 . 7 . continue up easier ground to a good stance about 75 ' below the large roof ( old piton ) .

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meanwhile , magic , the first single from coldplay ’s upcoming sixth album , ghost stories , is new in at number 10 today . singer / songwriter nick mulvey , whose celebrity fans include laura marling , claims his debut top 40 hit with cucurucu ( new in at 26 ) .

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the census taker is a 1984 black comedy directed by bruce r. cook .

it stars greg mullavey , meredith macrae , timothy bottoms , and garrett morris .

the film was the residents ' first film soundtrack commission when their participation was suggested by penn jillette to cook .

it was released by trans world entertainment on vhs in 1988 under the title husbands , wives , money & murder .

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the census taker <EOT> around the year i . . . : this census - taker , by china mieville

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finally , late in the book , this census - taker appears , on the boy’s doorstep , while his father is away . the census - taker is a native of the father’s city , and explains :

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will the census taker just go away ? yes , but he or she will most certainly be back .

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a down - on - his luck census taker discovers that he has more control over the population than he thinks when the people he creates on falsified census forms come to life .

exasperated by his intrusions , a family shoots a census taker and tries to hide his body from a detective .

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this census - taker is a stunning , uncanny and profoundly moving novella from multiple award - winning author china mieville .

this resulted in what i now describe as census despair , which was heightened by the census office’s lack of transparency about the time commitment of the job .

glassdoor has 6 us census bureau reviews submitted anonymously by us census bureau employees . read employee reviews and ratings on glassdoor to decide if us census bureau is right for you .

many testing for the census taker position had to take the exam and were not dressed properly . also the positions were only for nine to twelve weeks every ten years .

the third act of this sorrowful tale concerns the census - taker . it is here that the book turns to one of the chief terrors of childhood : the inability to distinguish good from evil .

like the strange , spare fairy tales that served as inspiration for glossier disney versions , the morality of the census - taker is hazy ; it’s up to the reader to interpret what’s right .

before the end credits , a final census tally of appleton types itself onto the screen .

program - the census taker , presented by charles leyburne ' s bon - ton stock company , lyceum , november 16 , 1900 - 1901 season . booklet .

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" mom ! the census - lady is here ! ” one teenager yelled as i stood on his porch , city of calgary ipad in hand . while working as a civic census taker this april and may , i also got called “sweetie” and “dear , ” mostly by elderly people . one man looked through his window and announced , “that girl - census - taker - person is here ! ”

americans who , for whatever reason , do not complete and return a census bureau questionnaire can expect a personal visit from a census taker or " enumerator . " what do the enumerators - - census takers - - have to do ? according to census bureau director kenneth w . prewitt ' s april 5 , 2000 testimony to the house subcommittee on the census , " each enumerator is given a binder of addresses in that area that includes all those addresses for which we have not received a completed questionnaire .

“they’re so dishonest in the training , ” said maureen , a census taker for the tuxedo area this year . “they gloss over the amount of time it will take . i only wish i’d been prepared . ”

inevitably , enjoying this book means accepting that many of the questions it invites will go unanswered . though the census - taker himself—whom we don’t even meet until almost three - quarters of the way through—deals in definite numbers and data , the book as a whole is uncertain to a fault , stranding us in the befuddled perspective of its narrator . even the census - taker’s most heroic act—a successful resolution of the book’s central mystery—goes unexplained , except by implication .

if the unit was occupied by a different household on census day , the enumerator completes a questionnaire for the occupants who lived there on census day by interviewing a knowledgeable person , such as a neighbor . if the current occupants were not enumerated elsewhere , the enumerator will also complete a census questionnaire for them for their census day address . if the housing unit was vacant on census day , the enumerator completes appropriate housing questions on the questionnaire by interviewing a knowledgeable person , such as a neighbor or apartment house manager .

the census - taker exhibits every sign of evil . he carries a peculiar gun native to the father’s city , which makes a sound that previously echoed in the hills , which the father has described as coming from “the kind of shot you use to kill a man . ” the census - taker has no good explanation for what he is doing . when challenged , he asserts , “i do have this authority . to make this count . ” he pretty clearly murders the boy’s father , although , although –we do not see it . the boy closes his eyes ; there are only suggestive sounds . even if it happened , though , had the father been a war criminal ? if the boy’s description of his cruel , mechanical killing reflects anything , then the census - taker may represent the reach of justice . unlikely , but possible . the gentle and endlessly shifty census - taker is terrifyingly ambiguous .

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1 . creeping dread 2 . the census taker 3 . talk 4 . end of home 5 . emotional music 6 . secret seed 7 . easter woman / simple song 8 . hellno 9 . where is she ? 10 . innocence decayed 11 . romanan / nice old man 12 . margaret freeman 13 . light ' s out 14 . where is she 15 . passing the bottle 16 . the census taker returns

if the housing unit was demolished or otherwise nonexistent under census definitions , the enumerator completes a questionnaire that provides the reason why the unit should be deleted from the census address list , by interviewing a knowledgeable respondent such as a neighbor or apartment house manager .

his new book is a novella that stretches the envelope of the description — called this census - taker — about a man looking back on the traumas of his boyhood , a prisoner whose captors call him " guest , " and the fallibility of memory .

and so it goes until a completed census questionnaire has been completed and turned into the local census office for every housing unit address in america . like all other employees of the census bureau , enumerators are subject by law to severe penalties including imprisonment for divulging information outside of the required scope of their job .

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calgary is one of the few municipalities in canada that conducts a yearly census , and city hall uses the collected information to make planning decisions . according to paul denys , leader of election and census at the city of calgary , school boards receive very accurate data from the civic census that allows them to forecast school enrolment . provincial grants for transportation and libraries are also based on either civic or federal census information .

“the census is important for building communities , ” said my friend joann , who worked as a census taker in the past . “how can we know the direction for the city if we don’t know where we are ? we need to know how many elderly people are here , how many kids . how else can we know where to build a school ? ”

zoey duncan , a writer who worked as a census taker last year , agrees : “i wasn’t getting any information about how much time it would take and how much money we would make . ”

[ the census - taker strongly implied that the boy ' s mother was once his assistant . presumably , he found her corpse in the hole and killed her murderer . a …more the census - taker strongly implied that the boy ' s mother was once his assistant . presumably , he found her corpse in the hole and killed her murderer . a bit of philosophical speculation : the census - taker seems to feel responsible for everyone on his list , which would have included the boy ' s father . if you twist your mind a certain way , it almost makes sense to kill the guy , so that you no longer have any obligations towards your colleague ' s killer ( and can recruit his conveniently orphaned kid ) . ( less ) ( hide spoiler ) ]

china miéville is the author of numerous books , including this census - taker , three moments of an explosion , railsea , embassytown , kraken , the city & the city , and perdido street station . his works have won the world fantasy award , the hugo award , and… more about china miéville

with the boy’s remaining parent gone , the census - taker takes him on as an intern , effectively adopting him—a turn of events so odd , and seemingly arbitrary , that it begs for more explanation than is ever offered . the boy is raised to perform a set of tasks that remain unclear , and he arrives at adulthood with this chilling quality : that he recounts his childhood without remarking on the lacunae . what is captivating in a boy , however , becomes subtly horrific in a man : that he has never sought to resolve the gaps in his understanding . that he allows the census - taker to remain suspended in the overlap of good and evil , a moral position the narrator now occupies as well . ultimately , this census - taker takes on the nostalgia of the corrupt for their innocence .

he ' s also been compared to karen russell and george saunders , and rightfully so . anyone who gets excited about language quirks and almost - surreal scenes will feel at home on the hilltop where this census - taker is set .

i also feel like “it was earth all along” is the kind of thing mieville avoids most of the time . however o do think that this census taker being set in bas lag would make sense . it’s location in the world would be vague , but the hints make sense as new crobuzon .

since the figures of the census taken by the democratic state officials in this city have come to be known , those best qualified to judge in such matters have been satisfied that the census as returned was grossly inaccurate in its details , if not in the aggregate population . view full article in timesmachine »

civic duty is an old - fashioned concept , but it’s a good reason to be a census taker . more importantly , it’s a good reason to pick up the phone and call the person who left that little blue slip in your mailbox ( seriously ) .

is the novella this census - taker just a prologue to a longer , more epic work ? will we read more in the future about this world , its history , and the life of the narrator ? if this is indeed the fourth bas - lag book , is it just the prelude to an upcoming fifth one ? i hope we find out soon .

reading china mieville is a little like being kidnapped . you’re not quite sure what’s happening , you’re not sure where you going , and afterwards , you’re not sure where you’ve been . that’s where the analogy ends , because china mieville is a wonderful experience and this census - taker , his latest story , is another great one . one of mieville’s strengths is immersing you in a world that is a surreal yet contains tantalizing elements of familiarity . this census - taker is the story of a boy who lives on

we may be in a post - apocalyptic world ; all we learn is that “there has been trouble . fighting . ” the census - taker does not arrive until a few pages from the end , and is there only because he has to count , to make a record .

and besides , i now understand that people don’t become census takers for the money . “they do it for the exercise , to get some fresh air , ” said the city of calgary employee who chatted with me when i dropped off my ipad at the end of my gig . and they do it , he said , because they care about their city . “it’s my civic duty , ” said one of my neighbours who once worked as a census taker .

though it can shade to purple , miéville’s baroque language—his archaic vocabulary and obtuse phrasings—serves a purpose . in its excess it sketches a kind of engaged bewilderment , underscoring the essential otherness of the worlds he imagines into being . in this census - taker , that’s of a piece with the book’s general commitment to uncertainty , its elaborate phrases amplifying the interrogative demands it makes on the reader .

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his census - taker , a longish novella , dislocates from the first line : “a boy ran down a hill path screaming . the boy was i . he held his hands up and out in front of him . . . ” the plot seems launched ; the boy lives on an isolated hilltop above the town , and has come to report that his mother has killed his father , an outsider to the district .

it’s been out for quite a while , but i just recently got around to reading china miéville’s latest book , the novella this census - taker . it was a really quick read , at just 130 pages , and i very much enjoyed it , although i wish it had been longer and explored the setting a bit more .

i can ' t sit here and sagely type to you the meaning of this census - taker . neither its plot or its deeper , thematic meaning . i am full of confusions and questions and speculations . i do know that i was dazzled by miéville ' s prose - - which i often am - - but in a new way , a foggy , struggling , back tracking , joseph conrad way . i didn ' t realize it until i wrote those words , but the novel i most closely relate to this census - taker has to be conrad ' s heart of darkness . there is colonization at work her

hi hedrigal , i havent read census taker myself yet , but reading this article reminded me of a theory i saw somewhere ( it may even have been this site ) that bas - lag is our world after the reality - breaking / altering cataclysm with the ghosthead empire ( i think the theory was based on new crobuzon being a post - crisis beijing and that the anophelli island ( s ) were australia or new zealand ) . that way the inclusion of modern tech or artifacts that point to our world would still be consistent with the bas - lag theory – it could just mean that census taker’s setting is geographically so far away from new crobuzon that they still have access to pre - crisis tech or they have rediscovered it .

this was the first soundtrack that was commissioned to the residents . but don ' t expect a full or even a partial orchestra here . it ' s about as minimal as the residents gets as far as instruments go . it seems to be all electronic . it ' s as weird as the residents can get too , that weird humor . it ' s only fitting that it was penn jillette ( yes the one from penn and teller ) that recommended the residents as the band to do the soundtrack . i haven ' t seen the movie , so i wouldn ' t know whether it was well done or not , but it is billed as a black comedy . the plot is about a very irritating census taker who keeps asking a certain couple questions that keep getting more abusive and ludicrous to the point that the couple decide to kill the census taker and then have to get a friend to help them hide the body . that ' s all i know about it .

[ is his father killed in the end ? there is only a little mention of him after the boy comes out of the cave . " in my father ' s workroom i looked at the table all mucky with metal dust . the room felt saturated with his presence , felt like he was speaking in it . " there was also some sounds the census taker makes when he comes back to the cave to get the boy and asks him to keep eyes closed . any idea what happened there ? ( hide spoiler ) ]

this census - taker begins , “a boy ran down a hill path screaming . the boy was i . ” the narrative is being told in recollection by the boy , now an adult . as a child , the boy lived with his distant father and stern mother in a rickety house on a semi - arid hill outside a small town . the hill and the town occupy a four - way world , depicted with elements of the age of electricity , the age of steam , the trappings of science fiction , and the trappings of fantasy , though no one element is emphasized or decisive . the opening scene ends :

i applied to be a “girl - census - taker - person” because i imagined it would be the perfect job for a writer : it would get me out of the house and—a writer’s dream come true ! —it would actually pay money . i imagined that i would walk through sunny streets , chat with neighbours , get fit , and meet many adorable cats .

- people are nonresponsive to census at times ; face rejection occasionally - higher management is completely lost ; the orders to count 40 , 000 + residents at penn state were given within the last month of the school semester ; consequently they had no idea what they were doing and didn ' t even know enough to give us the names of people who didn ' t respond to the census . therefore we had to go to every single housing unit to recount every student ( many of whom were rightfully frustrated since they had already completed their census form on time )

i think census should be taken every 5 years instead of 10 as population explodes every year and a 10 year statistic could be incorrect .

for all my frustration with this opaque novel , i came to its end understanding that miéville’s obscurantism serves one of his career - spanning themes—one that is , in fact , more evident here than in many of his more crowd - pleasing books . a political scientist by training , miéville imbues his stories with a deep distaste for state - sponsored power . census - taking is , of course , one mechanism of that power , a power that affirms and stabilizes itself through the elaboration of standards and norms . this census - taker , like the novel in which he appears , doesn’t quite fit the mold . he has , we gradually learn , gone rogue , suggesting that to reject statistical certainty may be to resist power itself . what does this census - taker propose that we put in its place ? it’s possible that we’ll never know .

the filmmakers chose the residents to perform the soundtrack as they were suggested by penn jilette .

basically data collection for the 2010 us census . my role was training people and helping people knock on doors , find people , and ask census questions . i also had to collect the data from all the workers in my team , and turn everything over in a specific package format to my supervisor . it is notable that everything done at that level was done on paper .

' this census - taker ' is a quiet book with a murderous heart china mieville ' s new novella feels like a fairy tale . it ' s set in an isolated hill village , where a young boy witnesses a terrible crime and meets a mysterious stranger who may ( or may not ) help him .

what i really want to do in this post is just nerd out a bit , and examine those clues i talked about . i want to see if i can structure an argument to convince myself , let alone anyone else , of my hunch . i really want to ask the question : is this census - taker set in bas - lag ?

that , i think , was the only drawback of the book : miéville revels in describing fantastic worlds — it’s his biggest strength as a writer , in my opinion — so for him to take such a restrained approach with this census - taker means that i’m left feeling the tiniest bit deprived . i wish miéville had expanded the end , and unveiled more and more of this weird world . i wish we could have seen the narrator’s full journey from his childhood to the “present day” from which he tells his story .

the boy escapes , is caught , escapes again , is caught again . his friends , the orphans , hatch a plan to help him but it goes wrong . writing as a much older man , the narrator is sure only of his boyhood terror . his conviction that , sooner or later , his father would kill him , too . that is , until the arrival of the census - taker — the odd man with the glasses and the tie , the books of figures and a gun , who has come to ask questions . to find certain people and record them . to talk , in this case , with the boy ' s father .

denys says it isn’t easy to find 900 people able to work as census takers on casual , limited - term contracts , especially in a city with low unemployment . but organizing and funding the census is worthwhile for the city . according to denys , the data collected each year is “vital to managing ( calgary’s ) continued growth and to ensuring that we are ready and able to address the challenges and needs that are before us . ”

in fact , an undercover detective - posing as a census - taker - introduces us , in a contrived way , to the dreams , secrets , customs and eccentricities of this tight - knit community , over which the disabled former firefighter john edward castle , now a local radio dj , has a bird ' s - eye view . on a long oblong stage , shimmer curtain at one end , castle ' s bedroom castle in the air at the other , " the tide rises and the tide falls " for the residents of this backwater yorkshire town , jerusalem .

i implore you to read embassytown and the city & the city ! they are two of the best pieces of speculative fiction from the last decade , easily , in my opinion . neither is written in a style similar to this census - taker . the worlds are fully fleshed out , the plots complex and completely followed through , the viewpoints that of adults who more - or - less have an understanding of the world around them . the city & the city does have one mystery in it that i would say only half - resolves , but it feels appropriate , and doesn ' t keep the story from having climax and closure . i think both are really dazzling in their ideas and imaginative scope ! ( less )

but when it was raining and the screen of my ipad was too wet to use , when dogs snarled at me , when doors were literally shut in my face , sometimes civic duty didn’t cut it . so why didn’t i quit ? i kept going due to a heightened sense of obligation and guilt—the same thing that compels me to accompany my mom to costco when she asks me—and because being a census taker is fascinating .

3 . 5 stars . it ' s not the epic novel china miéville ' s readers have been anxiously awaiting since 2010 ' s embassytown . ( that will come with 2016 ' s the last days of new paris . ) but his novella this census - taker proves that the new weird superstar has not lost the ability to captivate and unnerve . as with all of miéville ' s work , it begins with a city , sprawling incongruously up the slopes of a pair of steep hills ( or perhaps small mountain peaks ) , the gap between spanned by a bridge . near the top of on

the gradual solution of the crime involves the differentiation between the fantastical conspiracy of an entire hidden city , and the squalid , real - life conspiracy of criminal politicians and businessmen who murdered a young woman who became inconvenient . thus the conspiracy comes loose from the lacuna ; the conspiracy is broken up , but the question of the third city remains unresolved .

this is a book about childhood trauma , memory , identity , and the difficulty placed upon kids who begin to suspect that the authority to whom they ' re subservient may be corrupt , and that the world has hostile forces they aren ' t meant to understand . i think the meaning of its ending is less clear than mieville intends for it to be , but for the most part this census - taker is compact and really well - realized , especially in terms of location and atmosphere . he should write more short novels like this

the bareness of the environment harmonises with the stoic bleakness of the book’s emotions . our boy , whatever his name is , however old he is , lives up one of the mountains with a grimly inexpressive mother and a father prone to psychopathic episodes , in which he pounds small animals to death and pitches the carcasses into a bottomless pit in a cave . whether or not his father kills her , his mother disappears , and neither the street kids down below nor the adults of the town can rescue him from the silent , fearful house on the hill – until a census - taker in a stained suit and tie comes to the door . there is bareness , spareness , entropy , everywhere except in the language . that , on the contrary , is elaborate and fastidious and slightly dictionary - drunk , so that the words rendering all this scarcity are “vatic”’ and “pinchbeck” , “scends” and “chevon” .

the boy’s repeated , thwarted attempts to escape are fable - like in their tragicness , until , in keeping with the genre , a fairy godfather appears . a trim and dapper man offers an escape from his fear - filled life - - an escape to the far - away land his father originally comes from . the man is the titular census - taker , and it’s his job to keep track of the far - flung people from his home , the boy’s father included . he seems calm , and potentially manipulative , raising questions about whether he’s to be trusted , and whether the boy’s father is as wretched as he’s made out to be .

he looked like a failed soldier . dirt seemed so worked into him that the lines of his face were like writing . oh china , you coy wretch . promise and no delivery , or at least an awkward variety . the census - taker is an austerity tale , one set after the robots revolt . all skycorp and shit , except matters have settled bronze age . the opening sections reminded me of the wasp factory , but despite shimmering examples of trades being depicted , the tale only introduced its titular character essentially as an epilogue . from my hip one could read this as double indemnity of the next dark age .

this census taker is a small , quiet and gentle book with murder at its center . it ' s a beautiful chocolate that you bite into and find filled with blood . it is miéville at his most sparse , his most controlled and restrained — giving us a world defined by a broken carburetor , the sound of a walk being swept , a pantry full of mushrooms and spiders , the distant flickering of neon . and while the blind spots of the boy at its heart — the things he does not know , the questions he does not ask — may drive you crazy , the questions that miéville leaves itching in your brain at the turn of the final page are almost as interesting as the ( few ) truths that have been uncovered .

the fictional suburban community of appleton is turned upside down thanks to harvey mcgraw , an annoying census taker who ' s in charge of checking the neighborhood ' s population . when harvey visits george and martha dade , they reluctantly invite him in , but when the questionnaire turns too personal for the couple , they accidentally shoot him in the forehead . they are then forced to hide his body from their company , martha ' s sister eva and her husband pete , a former detective . when he discovers harvey ' s body in the kitchen closet , a bright future is very unlikely for george and martha .

in modernity the loss of the bedrock sense of the divine caused , at first , a reverse of the epiphanic quality of the lacuna . while it had once been a gesture toward the mystery , it began to represent instead the maddening absence of god—first , in 1853 , in bartleby , the scrivener :

most importantly , in an interview conducted after the release of this census - taker , miéville was asked if he would ever return to bas - lag , and his answer , while not definitive , seems to lean towards a “maybe one day but not yet” . but , who knows . he could be choosing not to reveal too much in the initial press coverage of the book’s release . if he truly buried these clues in there for fans to find , then it would make sense that he wouldn’t go and spill the beans immediately .

in the most creative of writing , a puzzle is set up which is resolved not as the sum of the established set of parts , but rather through an unexpected image which both resolves the puzzle and introduces a revelatory new element–something which could never have been anticipated . in a sense , miéville performs such a lateral synthesis with this census - taker . it addresses the original lacuna of the divine mystery , and the harrowing lacuna of the modern loss of god ; it addresses the lacuna as psychological phenomenon , and as mechanism of structural interest . it does all these things in an utterly unexpected way : by fusing these elements naturally into the perspective of a boy as recalled by a broken man . the boy is moved by a child’s almost religious sense of wonder and by a child’s terror at the loss of his parents . the book presents lacunae both as lapses in the cognition of a child and as defense mechanisms in the psychopathology of a man . the dense tapestry of overlapping absences dextrously meets the challenge of lacuna as structural peculiarity .

with the headline : a false census . ; a sample of democratic frauds . a plan to give new - york city an undue proportion op senators and assemblymen - - glaring errors in the returns filed by enumerators - - a demand for legislative inquiry .

for readers of george saunders , kelly link , and karen russell , this census taker is the poignant and uncanny new novella from award - winning and bestselling author china miéville . after witnessing a profoundly traumatic event , a boy is left alone in a remote house on a hilltop with his increasingly deranged parent . when a stranger knocks on his door , the boy senses that his days of isolation are over—but by what authority does this man keep the meticulous records he carries ? is he the boy’s friend ? his enemy ? or something altogether other ?

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at its most obtuse moments , this census - taker feels as if it had been crafted out of the cast - off fragments of an unfinished samuel beckett novel . and yet occasional images of unusual beauty await the attentive and patient : on the underside of a bridge , a gang of children casts rods out into the air , trawling not for fish but for bats . in his workshop , the narrator’s father dips his fingers into colored powders to shape keys that may unlock strange powers . if these sequences sometimes befuddle they’re no less elegant for it . the very density of miéville’s ideas both contributes to and compensates for our alienation .

let me begin my discussion of this census - taker ( 2016 ) by admitting that i love this book . for me , it stands in relation to all but the best of miéville’s previous work as the thing itself stands in relation to a description of the thing ; not like recounting a dream , but like dreaming it . it treats very little , and yet the things it treats , it plumbs to the marrow . it reveals something precious . in it , the grip of the author’s hand eases at last , so that he scarcely pushes the words ; therefore it is a book of few words , stripped of excess until those words achieve a heartbreaking clarity . this book represents a breakthrough for miéville .

the concept , reduced to a girl ate what was given her , recurs throughout the book ; but the details of the event are never supplied . the lacuna - as - trauma haunts the novel and animates avice’s detachment . what might in a more trivial concealment register as mere euphemism takes on the stature of the lacuna when the key facts of the character are generally stated but specifically unspoken .

a false census . ; a sample of democratic frauds . a plan to give new - york city an undue proportion op senators and assemblymen - - glaring errors in the returns filed by enumerators - - a demand for legislative inquiry . - the new york times

i really hope that i’m right about this census - taker , that it hides a similar setting - based puzzle in its pages . it would be another layer of depth to what’s already such a layered and intoxicating story . an alternative possibility is that miéville put the references in knowingly as a fun , metafictional treat for his fans , but the book just isn’t set in bas - lag . the most disappointing possibility is that i’m totally reading too much into it , and all of the clues i’ve mentioned are coincidences . i really doubt this possibility though .

it’s later revealed that the keys may possess supernatural abilities , but whether these hexes are the result of real magic or simply magical thinking is never made clear . that’s the special power of miéville’s writing : he dives right into the language and conventions of far - off worlds , rather than overburdening the reader with unnaturally related details . like le guin , he has an anthropological approach to fantasy and science - fiction ; unlike many of le guin’s books , this census - taker isn’t narrated by an outsider , but by an uncritical character in the throes of the action . the boy - narrator doesn’t pause to explain his peculiar word choices , resulting in earthy , playful , sonorous sentences that are a pleasure to explore .

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china miéville’s dazzlingly inventive fantasies and sf novels have long broken the bounds of genre ; his new novella this census - taker , a strange , nebulous fable about a traumatised young boy , proved almost impossible to pin down , prompting both admiration and incomprehension . “the power of imprecision has long fascinated miéville , ” declared jacob brogan in slate . “at its most obtuse moments , this census - taker feels as if it had been crafted out of the cast - off fragments of an unfinished samuel beckett novel . ” “longtime miéville readers are going to wonder exactly what they’re reading , ” agreed nk jemisin in the new york times , for whom the book risked being “an exercise in haunting , lovely frustration” . “miéville is justly regarded as one of the most interesting and freakishly gifted writers of his generation , ” declared andrew mckie in the daily telegraph . plot summary is pointless : the novella “is all atmosphere and delivery . the prose is as precise , but it has been chiselled into a realistic depiction of fog . it is eerie , but solid . when i rubbed away at the surface , i found – i think – a story with a meaning and a resolution . it may not be the story you find … it’s well worth reading , though . ”

the book describes the narrator’s life before and after whatever happened , happened . his parents are reticent and distant , from each other and their child . his mother is local , and once worked in a distant city ; now she ekes plants from the stony earth . his father is not local , and is a key - maker : these keys seem to have magical or talismanic properties . his father is prone to sudden outbursts of rage , beating stray animals to death and , the boy suspects , he may have killed one of his customers as well . unlike their few neighbours they do not burn their refuse , but tip it into a chasm inside the mountain . the boy has seen his father jettison the corpses into the hole , and dreams of a mountain of debris and refuse inside the mountain . the only affection he gets is from vagabond children who live on the bridge in the town below . the only justice he might get will come in the form of the kafka - esque census - taker .

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the next stage of the mysterious city’s history is the great census - taking , which we only hear about in very vague terms in this book . for some reason the city decides that it needs to send agents out into the world to find out where all of its citizens are . sounds like the kind of paranoid reaction new crobuzon’s government might have . could we find out more about this in a future bas - lag book ?

this same trope makes a new appearance in miéville’s latest novel , this census - taker , though by now it’s clear that he’s applied the same techniques to his own work—with sometimes mixed results . when he’s at his most imaginative , his stories are storms of ideas , flurries of concepts that pelt the reader like hailstones . within the weird worlds of his novels , anything that might be is , the strange tangoing with the stranger . nevertheless , more than a decade after the scar , he’s still weaponizing the very idea of inexactitude : late in the new book , the titular civil servant shows off his own armament , a double - barreled rifle that fires buckshot from one of its ports and solid slugs from the other . “it spreads possibilities , ” he tells the story’s young narrator . “like an average . a range and its mean . this is an averaging gun . ”

a false census . ; a sample of democratic frauds . a plan to give new - york city an undue proportion op senators and assemblymen - - glaring errors in the returns filed by enumerators - - a demand for legislative inquiry .

good . creepy . tight . feels wolfe - esque in its studied care with metaphor and peculiar first person narration . that leads me , in turn , to suspect textual trickery ( along with occasional slips in voice like " the boy is i " ) , but without the anchoring framework of something like six days and seven nights in america , or the fifth head of cerberus , i lack an angle of attack . what here is the predecessor ' s voice ? vs . current census - taker ? etc . it ' s short and well written . definitely worth a look , like

as an avid fan of the twilight zone , this movie kept my attention with the flowing plot and the great actors which never fall into the melodramatic or wink at the audience . with an unexpected twistful ending , it falls right up there with the rest of the old episodes i love .

not all the stories were sad . my most memorable census moment was when i visited the house i’ve always been curious about . its occupants don’t seem to have the same need for privacy that most suburban calgarians do . on warm evenings , they sit in their front yard to listen to music , talk and laugh .

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here the book offers a key to the unsettling eclipse of its narrative . the boy’s own intuitive sense of these gaps , and his response to them , is captured in the sketch of the fence and the tree . he notes the absence , and relishes its boundaries with that primal sense , touch , as he occupies the space freed up and still defined by the missing object . the anecdote captures the intensity and sense of magic in childhood , and the process of organic completion that comes naturally to children’s minds .

the city where the narrator’s father is from is a mystery in itself . it gets mentioned a lot throughout the story , and we find out eventually that it’s where the census takers are from as well . the city has a specific history that is told by drobe on page 58 : first there was a war with “mechanicals” ( which is supposedly where that creepy wooden head that haunts the narrator is from ) , then “problems on the trains” , then two wars , “one inside , one out” .

2017 hugos nominee for best novella , and i honestly don ' t know what to make of this book . it ' s purposefully cryptic and vague , and there ' s a haziness of identity throughout - - " the boy " vs . " i " vs . " you " , our narrator blurring pronouns in his retelling - - and the chronology see - saws back and forth , and yet that wasn ' t even the problem . i could follow that easily enough . where this census - taker lost me was the meandering prose and a lack of direction , and that it so stubbornly refuses categorisat

over and over again , book after book , miéville’s mature work forces the reader to ask the question that most writers get to prompt once in a literary lifetime if they’re lucky : what is this new thing we are being shown ? repeatedly , as a writer of the fantastic , he forces a redefinition of what fantasy can be . the answer in this census - taker is as different from the one in embassytown as embassytown was from the city & the city . the marvellous , we learn from this marvellous and strange little book , need not even be a question of subject matter at all . it is optic , an angle of vision , a new - ground lens applied to a world that , through it , swims and bleeds and discloses what it would not have done otherwise .

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review from speculative herald : urltoken 4 . 5 / 5 stars this census - taker , in its novella length , provides the reader with a glorious and powerful enigma of a story . it is haunting , chilling , disturbing and touching and mesmerizing and absolutely beautiful . i could not stop reading this as i just craved to understand what was going on . it starts with a young boy running faster than he has ever run . running from some unimaginable horror , and then we find out it involves

this struggle plays out in the evolving role of the intentional lacuna . the stain and the scar are offhanded absences , background detail , deployed mainly for dramatic emphasis in the context of a bewilderingly crowded landscape . by the time he publishes the city and the city ( 2009 ) , though , his attention turns more specifically to the lacunae . in this surreal crime novel , two cities occupy the same geographical space , existing in uneasy overlap through the fine subdivision of territory . the complexity of this subdivision opens the possibility that cartographic errors have left room for a third city , a city in the gaps . the lacuna here is identified with one of its frequent companions , the conspiracy . they are superficially similar : the information content of a conspiracy is concealed , while that of a lacuna is unknowable . for the time being , they appear the same because one does not know the important facts about either one .

if there is a younger version of robinson in the english language , it must be china miéville . more influenced by postmodernists like j . g . ballard but also well within the socialistic literary lineage of science fiction , miéville was born in 1972 and educated in international relations and british left politics as well as what he likes to call “weird literature . ” no summary of his earlier work , ranging widely and twice from fiction to non - fiction ( the latest is october , his own historical account of the russian revolution ) , can simplify it generically . so let us turn to his latest fiction , a little gem entitled this census taker .

although the census questions are relatively impersonal , sometimes they brought out heartbreaking stories . when asked about transportation to work , one woman told me that no one in her house travels anywhere . “my son is too sick to work and my mom has alzheimer’s . ”

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in the steampunkish worlds of miéville’s fictions—and perhaps in this census - taker most of all—the possible and the unknowable meet in the uncertain . for most of his new book’s length , its narrator lives in his ramshackle family home on a rough and uncivilized hill . there are , he sometimes suggests , creatures on that hill at night , dangerous creatures , possibly even monstrous ones . and yet we never quite glimpse them . by day , things larger than birds sweep their shadows over the ground , but they fly so high that we never learn whether they’re dragons or airplanes . indeed , though there’s talk of weather - watchers and hermits and witches elsewhere on the tangled slope , it’s hard to say whether this is a truly magical world or merely one of pervasive superstition .