Mariana Leky’s magical-realist bestseller
What You Can See from Here is full of innocent animals standing in for something more sinister. There’s the okapi: a cloven-hoofed beast endemic to Congolese forests, which makes ominous appearances in the dreams of protagonist Luise’s grandmother, foreshadowing imminent deaths in their village. There’s also a huge Irish wolfhound called Alaska, “the colour of slush”, who was acquired by Luise’s father on the advice of his psychoanalyst to help him “externalise his pain”. The treatment is effective: the father embarks on a never-ending voyage around the world, leaving behind both his pain and his family in their home on the edge of the Westerwald, a mountainous region on the banks of the Rhine.
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Facebook confirms that it is testing a new QR code feature and payment links for use with Facebook Pay to make it easier for people in the United States to send or to request money from one another.
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The QR code feature, similar to Venmo s QR codes and others, will allow a user to scan a code with the camera of their smartphone so they can send or request money, while the sharable payment links will let users publish the payment address outside of Facebook itself.