… literature when it is ready to appear; when, in fact we become a nation. But it is more likely that we may become an … is better than ill-will; and I am convinced that even the diehard traditionalist would deny his own shrinking … the eye: we, as provincials who do not live anywhere. 262-272 By Allen Tate …
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… themselves to go from that “different stage” of an almost medieval society to a modern state with a developed economy … found difficult to express. In Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926) he idealized homsexuality as the biblical love of David … voice, the rising and dropping tone which emphasized the points, or what he thought were points, of his pointless …
… such a beautiful house! Don’t you just love it?”—and I have come to reply with a weak and simple “Yes.” How can I, in a … two adventurers beat a howling retreat. The serving of meals was at best a complicated problem at Mount Pleasant. At … gentlemen and the ermine scarfs and capes with which the ladies had been wise enough to fortify themselves. The lace of …
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… in her fifth month. Three months earlier, she and Ethan had compiled a list of twenty criteria for a home, a place to … no building codes, to allow building with natural materials. Sarah and Ethan would not use cars or airplanes. They … and coconuts from Thailand, I tasted an actual locavore diet. At the Possibility Alliance there was no sugar, …
… the main highway, landing on a shell road like an airplane coming down wrong. He had to find his cousin Floyd before … the hood. T-Jean was afraid of the brimming roadside canals, so he watched instead the white frame house up ahead in … in a scream of machinery and a rattling black column of diesel smoke. Trees snapped under his tires like breaking …
… Mistress of the minded Q, the pointed I I knew discretion comes to order, and the million likenesses add up to one … molecular affinities, I mean the world to him, he’ll fix my Comet, I will feed his Milky Way machine. I mean nothing to …