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… good idea, at least without the high-schooler in the house also making a contribution. Then there’s my phone. I like … chained to our technology to be human, too sloppy with our communication to hold onto the rules of language that have …
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… On Whitman’s “To a Locomotive in Winter” In Wordsworth’s 1833 sonnet, … of “influential traditions of English prosody which forms points of departure, at least, for any indigenous rhythms … twinkle of thy wheels Thy train of cars behind, obedient, merrily-following, Through gale or calm, now swift, …
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… right cultural frame of reference to be an appropriate audience, let alone a judge. She knew about gardens and … stayed stable. We do not offer an online product, just a website that gives information and serves as a modest portal … I did not mean to offend, but rather to make some obvious points. With each passing year I prefer to read fewer, …
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… T-shirts or towels toward the rescue they believe will come. Cages like open coffins descend from helicopters, and … wretched surprises this water will have in store for our bodies when the evidence of it recedes. In a press conference, … to get paid, or to expect to be repaid, even in karma points, for everything you do. You can let some of it be a …
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… on grounds of blasphemy, scurrility, or obscenity—or, not uncommonly, all three. To an unreconstructed libertarian the … of royalty, and the gentry’s claim to privilege, had they also been applied to the things the scriptures identify … of the mighty, combine to produce a sympathetic audience for those who cast off the ordinary restraints of …
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… was back in the late nineties. Her ex-boyfriend had just died from a heroin overdose, and after receiving the news, … on the details. “They tell me that the next morning they’ll come pick me up, and we’ll go have breakfast. At that time, … north-northeast through Texas to Houston, Dallas, and points beyond. Still green to the game, Maria wouldn’t be …