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Be Gentle
… pizza. And so, with a certain degree of optimism uncommon to us on most days, my wife, Erin, and I drive west … out , Mama! Nice…blue sky !”  Her odd cadences are like melodies to me and I can’t help but repeat them back. “Nice…day… … how to pet the dog. Erin was sympathetic to the task, but also dubious that it would result in the desired outcome. …
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Writing Life: Remaking a Norton Anthology
… Did I trade in my scholarly aspirations and become an effete arranger of bouquets? What redeems literary … W. B. Yeats and James Joyce, author of numerous critical studies of modern literature, and then master of perhaps the … real foreign words or his invention (see note 2 on page 263, vol. 2, for the answer), or when a fellow anthologist …
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A Note on Paul Valéry
… 1932 I was in France for the second time, and I hoped to accomplish what I had failed to do on my first visit four … to develop a little pour rendre cette pensée ridicule, ou odieuse, ou naïve. This side of Valéry is so well-known that … Valéry presents the Serpent’s temptation of Eve. Winters points out the absence of Adam: he is not necessary to this …
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As They Like It
… student who would actually choose a course on Shakespearean comedy for their senior English elective. It’s my first time … all is mended; in the latter, things go awry and everyone dies). But my true goal—the goal that keeps me awake at … her imagery gathering energy, “That I did suit me all points like a man? / A gallant curtle-axe upon my thigh, / A …
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Fear Factors
… been able to find a bicycle shop that sells them. But it becomes more and more evident that this is a normal, accepted … more scandals provoked change. In 1937 in the US, children died screaming in pain after their parents gave them a cough … that claims to use a Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) protocol for food safety, which in the US is …
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The Next Generation In Fiction
… tackle box, or whatnot to make it PoMo. My stapler is now comme il faut . In 1980 21 articles appeared in major … near the outset of this decade), the concept effectively died, suffocated by the flabby weight of its own trendiness. … father of neorealism, then Ann Beattie is the mother. She also gained recognition in 1976 with her novel Chilly Scenes …
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