Volume 53, Number 4 · March 9, 2006
Baby, It's Cold Outside
By Brad Leithauser
The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule
by Joanna Kavenna
Viking, 294 pp., $24.95
Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance
by Mariana Gosnell
Knopf, 560 pp., $30.00
As if for the convenience of poets, the pronunciation is flexible. Ultima Thule. This is Thule rhyming with truly, but you also sometimes hear it as a monosyllable, echoing fool.
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