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… 1932 I was in France for the second time, and I hoped to accomplish what I had failed to do on my first visit four … to develop a little pour rendre cette pensée ridicule, ou odieuse, ou naïve. This side of Valéry is so well-known that … Valéry presents the Serpent’s temptation of Eve. Winters points out the absence of Adam: he is not necessary to this …

… him plenty of ammunition for their attacks on democracy and Communism, one can also find much with which to riddle the … in his ingenious analyses of contrasting societies; he points to the widespread decay of certain primitive … purposeful and ethical animal; it affords a richer diet for human interests and sentiments. In Pareto’s own …

… all over Dracula . Mina is drained of her blood, then made complicit in the feast: His right hand gripped her by the … Maria in the mountains confesses her rape to an American soldier—​ things were done to me I fought until I could not see … can be symptom as much as cure; everything ultimately points back to pain—​even and especially these clutches at …

… eye. It was what Sedaris wrote: “It might surprise you how completely enjoyable this book is, as rich and beautifully … screenwriter Ed Burns, in an episode of The Wire about falsified you-are-there newspaper stories, derides as “the … of six books, including The Family , Sweet Heaven When I Die , and Radiant Truths , forthcoming in 2014. blurb book …

… have the death portrait of my great-grandmother’s baby who died from the measles in 1871. The baby’s name and sex are … to twitch her brush across the paper so that little pinpoints of tint bled into the wash of water and spread out … four years away at college I had imagined that she might come back with me for a spell. I repainted her room, bought …