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… texts, and an obsession with glossing (the endnotes that accompany The Master Letters make a new genre of the form).  … Old World circus, part Waffle House—among them hospitals, castles, cookie jars, teacups, drawers, barns, heaven, … Will (perhaps tomorrow) die. An alter ego, Dove, flits in and out of the cages of …

… flamboyishness that it would inspire gossip for years to come. Though hesitant at first, I supported her dream. … accent it was, but it sounded like that. “Shawnon and the ladies are a-already hee-yah, so you must a-remain upstairs … first. (We are holding hands, but with her thumb, Shannon points back at herself and mouths, “The other fella?”) The …

… use them to sharpen the edges of blunted truths, sometimes also to fashion ideas which amuse him. “When you arrive on … bands of day and night—the cosmic systole and diastole become visible—, haven’t you the feeling of having made a trip … touching geology, biology, and so on, are immediately studied, analysed, discussed. There is not a single laboratory …

… in which I’d addressed him. He said, “You’re not going to die. I’m an American. You are free.” This made no sense to … Because by now I had my head up and the light was becoming manageable. I saw hundreds of Japanese men in United … and we spent hours poring over pictures of elaborate meals and presentations. That night she came she said it was …

… “When man’s Utopian aspirations to develop his own humanity die out,” writes Polak, “then man himself dies.” The … “Perfection and Progress: Two Modes of Utopian Thought,” also seeks to find the difficulties that burden authors of … rather than the nature of man. Hansot traces in six Utopian commonwealths not so much the issue of their merit or …