Ms Russell has produced a rich and humid world of spirits and dreams, buzzing mosquitoes and prehistoric reptiles, baby-green cocoplums and marsh rabbits, and musty old tomes about heroes and spells.
It is the myth of a supreme creator who is removed from the world and can only be reached through the medium of spirits.
The latter category defines most of the spirits-consuming world.
The lessons of a sleepy Dutch spirits market were inapplicable in, say, the cut-throat world of frozen yogurt.
This data is not per capita, but is a snapshot of the popular brands in the world's largest spirits markets.
Last year it persuaded the United States' Patent Office to throw out a trademark challenge brought by Bacardi, a spirits firm now based in Bermuda and the maker of the world's biggest-selling rum.
Comic Jerry Seinfeld hopes to raise spirits -- and money -- for the victims of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks.
Pernod Ricard said the sale of its soft drinks brands, which account for 5% of the firm's profits, would be "an important step in recentring the group on its core activity, spirits and wines, in which it will become one of the world leaders".
The company insists that after careful taste testing, no one will be able to tell the difference and it will taste exactly the same, but given some of the super tasters I have met through my work in the wine and spirits world, I find it virtually impossible that such a change in alcohol content can go unnoticed, especially with no additives to compensate.
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Shares in Allied Domecq jumped on reports that Warren Buffett , through his Berkshire Hathaway investment vehicle, is spending some of its cash pile buying a stake of over 3% in the British firm, the world's second-largest wine and spirits group, which also owns the Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins food chains.
Matters come to a head when she spirits everybody to a remote lodge in the wilds of Canada, where access to the outside world is limited.
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