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… the house was beautifully situated in a whitewashed medieval village and from the sunny roof terrace we could see … three nights. Since Karl’s place lacks Wi-Fi I had to compose my complaint the next day from the terrace of the … Spain marriage children Travel family house hotel vacation 126-131 By Mark Sundeen Illustration by Jedidiah Dore …
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… use … is in the strict sense reactionary.”2 Many other commentators agree, calling contemporary “neo-formalism” “a … and cultural break-up” (Rich, Collected Early Poems, 426). As these telling comments suggest, two affinities drew … “If I live, there is none to share my sorrow, and if I die there will be none to mourn me” (Russell and Islam, …
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… to love a line by Catullus: “Calling all syllables!” They’d come. Now they don’t. I’m not sure I need them to. Even a … I read. I give up the voice in my head for a stranger’s. I also give up meat and sugar. Salt and beer. I give up hours … are listening for the words, the right ones. When you are coming to terms. Or maybe the terms will come to me. I look …
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… City. Behind the high wall of the police-headquarters complex, the cars are piled three, four, even five high, their rusted bodies giving the area around them the feel of a junkyard. For … nor has he been captured by any branch of the same. October 26, 1972: Information is released that he is not detained by …
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… even the truth,” one translation reads. This nonpossession points back toward the nondual: part of what isn’t … coal-heated cottage in Northumberland. One night—March 26, 2007—I turned on the television. The reception was just … look like, lived fully through, between opposing soldiers and peoples, between neighbor and neighbor. The heart …
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… of microbiology at the University of Tennessee, studies microbes that have absurdly long lifespans. Many of … of how long we’d been traveling. All the usual reference points of existence—light, a horizon line, sky—were gone. … stayed in her cave for eighty-eight days, and Senni went 126 days before emerging. When Laures came out, on March 12, …