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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, …
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… benign but expanding, that had encroached on and finally compressed his optic chiasma. Adolfo Carmona—husband to … technical creativity, a gift for engineering raw materials into a kind of commercial sublime. California and Chile … scrambled eggs into his bare hands. He despaired. When he died, his sisters discovered he’d been sleeping on …
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… a group of political scientists writing in Presidential Studies Quarterly about the first volume of Johnson recordings … writing a Ph. D. dissertation.” He posted a letter on his website stephenambrose.com from George McGovern (a World War … sin. Plagiarism is a moral one.” In his book, Mallon also points out that computers offer less of a solution than a …
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… Emily Dickinson. How many others? In Canada, you didn’t get points off for being a woman. The challenge wasn’t so much … There was hardly a market for new novels. The writing community up here was so small at that time. Because of … This is a very interesting way of putting a book together. Also, there are the two houses. There are the Lintons, who …
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… walked her outside for some fresh air. Crosstown moments come to mind, too: Were it not for the L, I would never have … with some frequency. I don’t do it deliberately. But I also do not pre-plot every step and turn when heading … around? Go back the way I came?” She nodded four times. Wow, I thought as I drove off, if only all of one’s mistakes …