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… Peter At the Crossroads Music comes out to meet us as we head up the Neva into St. … like the Bishop of Rostov, broken with hammers and left to die on the wheel. Lopakhin, brother of Eudoxia, the wife … around it, is like a bright girdle cinching the focal points of the city. The Malaya or Little Neva descends from …

… and October—”pickin’ time.” The five oldest Carter children completed their educations in this school and soon fled … for almost everyone. This county was the subject of two studies written in the 1930’s, both of which describe in detail … funded by a branch of state government. This county is also the site of former U. S. Senator James O. Eastland’s …

… romantic, carnal, platonic, natural, unnatural—is the encompassing theme of White’s fiction. His most ambitious … separate (often unjustly and ironically) savages from criminals, criminals from common folk, and common folk from the … among the gentry (of whom Garnet Roxburgh is one) in Van Dieman’s Land; then she is thrown among the crew of the …

… the familiar Third World stench of burning trash and hot diesel fumes mixed with Fallujahn streetfunk, dudesweat, … is tribal like the people who live there. It keeps its own company. Things only seem absolutely true in Washington. The … was so high that prior to the deployment a few Marine generals began making disparaging comments about the US Army’s …

Only the Beginning of the Sharpness “What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.” —Flann O’Brien,  The Third Policeman It’s hard for the master sharpener after all that work to have the shaft taken for the …