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… anticipated the air had a lettucey crispness. Nunavut is a composite word that, in Inuktitut, the language of the Inuit … a Great Shopping Experience”), where a two-liter of Diet Coke, I found, is C$4.50, a box of Capitaine Crounche … done some hiking, but never far from town and always at a Defcon Two state of polar bear vigilance. One of these hikes …
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… incorporeal agency, that takes away a large part of his income if he is very rich, and gives him a large part of his … for almost fifty million dollars. This is a mere expedient and represents no saving at all, for under the … for museums, zoological and botanical gardens, etc., $265,000; and for health, sanitation, hospitals, and child …
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… brown mop top; and Morgan, the “best friend” they have in common, with her moon of a face, big glasses, and long blond … blood, slowly bleeding out in the woods, Bella is left to die. About five hours later and a few miles away, while … “Victor Surge”) in one of the collections of forums on the website Something Awful. Surge decided to take part in a new …
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… muslin, From the heartbeat whose silence makes the world die? Having proposed such a vision, Miłosz undoes it with … version of civilization that the poet will present to us comes from “our net.” Woven from signs, hieroglyphs, vision, … Since his other versions occupy far fewer lines, we may also infer that language itself is the essential measure of …
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… the Roma of Bulgaria Stoyan is the mayor of Hope. He is also its doctor, social worker, psychologist, marriage … polished to a maddening shine; a pair of sunglasses, like compound eyes, rests on his dark forehead. To the casual … basis for three edicts—among so many others—of the Imperial Diet (in 1497, 1498, and 1500), which advocated the …
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… State of Scarcity On Compromise in Lockdown When the COVID-19 lockdown order … the virus is not interested in individual choice, it is also not interested in justice. And because we live in an … racialized people: by the extraction of wealth from their bodies; by their imprisonment and policing; by their use as …