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In Whitman’s Country
… he called it? Am I really in Mannahatta? I could not have come to America without Whitman. Now that would be an odd … populous democracy, and in India, returning after my studies in England, I read Whitman again. In me are the … seemed bland, colorless next to the room of intricate murals I had just passed through, the far wall filled to …
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The State of the Art
… it in the Christian Examiner in 1828, he’ll remind his audience how much this strange, homespun work once meant to … that was hawked about the country, printed on sheets like common ballads,” and it presented, in language often … (“Regard not then if wit be Old or New / But blame the False , and value still the True ”), Pope hews to the …
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Old Ideas
… celebrity exploded in the last decade of his life; fans may come to this book unaware that it is merely the last in a … I’m Your Man. There is the World War I–vet father who dies when Breavman is nine, and the anecdote in which … balladeer, a sensitive, pacifist type. The main website devoted to Cohenania, Cohencentric, lists the three …
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The Last Time I Saw Elliot Paul
… wayward showers and the humidity high, so that the weather combined with the effects of the wine at lunch made you feel … who intoned sorrowfully, “When they drink it that way, they die.” However, Elliot survived to go on to new challenges. … out and had a leisurely breakfast. He entrusted his briefcase to me—apparently his only luggage—so as not to be …
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Boundaries of Utopia
… from my first cousin to the daughter of a duke; no lord compels me to marry a girl or widow from the manor, no … Not subject to the persecutions of ecclesiastical busybodies, I decide that it would be pleasant to take a young … of the oppressed is perhaps the most inexplicable, as it is also the most important, fact in all history), have been …
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Bidders of the Din
… even pizzas, using just a microwave and simple ingredients like packaged meats, ramen noodles, and seasoning … One day you’re reading Fight Club and debating the finer points of German idealism, and the next you’re robbing a … gifted by a friend who worked in the chow hall that read fci ashland food service . My hair and beard were long, and …
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