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The Broken Country
… but he felt terribly sorry for me because I was going to die a virgin. This was already impossible, but in that … bad wiring in my brain was to blame, the same warped signals that throw off my balance and make my muscles tighten, … being forced under sedation, made to leave your body and come back to a version that hurts more but is supposedly …
Week 1/26/20
… Week 1/26/20 In an effort to better acquaint you, the reader, with … Best 200 Words I Read All Week. From fact to fiction, from comedic to tragic, we hope you find as much to admire in … these selections as we do.    Click  here for access to the complete project archive    1.  “Who gives a $#%& about an …
A Woman’s Name Is In the Second Verse:
… that a song more powerful than the hymn of angels is forthcoming.” When the thunder stopped, a song in supernatural wattage began. It came down in falsetto, reciting words of beauty, of totality, of purpose. … pushed me deeper into the silt and mud for good measure. 626-629 By Ray A. Young Bear …
A Ge’mman wid’ a Big Book
… cynical, tedious work that Lewis Mumford and other earlier commentators found it than as a masterpiece of 19th-century … by the number of articles, dissertations, and cultural studies it has informed during the last decade, it has all but … Griffiths, among others. The promoter/ booster figure is studied in such representatives as Jefferson, Whitman, William …
A Western Journey
… First day: 404 miles. Tuesday, June 21, 1938. Yosemite. Dies Irae: Wakened at 5:30—dragged weary bones erect, and we … and pleasant houses. Then we are out from town, but traffic comes flanking past us now, loaded trucks and whizzing cars, … have only so and so much to do on Monday.” So to bed—and 265 miles today. Sunday, June 26, 1938. Arose at Bryce …
Can France Abdicate?
… and contempt as well as fear; and even we, since we have become a world power, have been exposed to the bitter … as sailors, as athletes, as explorers, they vie with the hardiest. On at least three points they are vastly ahead of us. They were able to …
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