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If A Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood
… he hadn’t bothered changing out of. He wished Shawn could come back from wherever he was hiding. “Well, no. Of course, … trying them out on the bus driver who was glad for the company and helpful in suggesting phases of his own. It was … clasping them together, then unclasping them, sliding his false teeth in and out with his tongue in a way he never did …
William Golding: Genius and Sublime Silly-Billy
… his first novel, Lord of the Flies . A minority was still coming to terms with Golding’s later novels, a powerful … in southwest England. He was born in Cornwall in 1911, studied science at Oxford, and became a schoolmaster in … fantasy, solitude and violence of his outlook touch at many points on the art of Poe, Hawthorne and Melville. To find …
Life in America
… the book of the dead it is written she had 15 children: 2 died before her, 2 went off to America, and 11 survived her … Clark of Nebraska, daughter of Edward and Augusta, was to become in her turn wife to Edwin Samuel Nelson, second son of … of the evergreens they had always loved. And in the annals of Kansas agriculture they say this of Johnson …
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Old Wine in New (Medicine) Bottles?
… relatively uncensored Jefferson that exists in the least-studied writings of his retirement years, 1809–1826” (3). Regrettably, historians and editors have, for the … period have ever been published, and the figure for his incoming correspondence is lower still. The “secrets” that …
Songs for Solstice
… How tall, how wide, how deep is all Grave love, who must compute the yardage By measure of a primal rule. Against my … inch. INTRINSIC COIN UPON my metal’s passive flan The last die printed shall erase Al1 other lettered legends and All … descend the forging blow. Falls through the winter sun the die! Imprinted now is last device. Forevermore whoever must …
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Mother Jones: The Death of Fiction?
… on MFA programs’ devastating effect on literary journals and fiction : By the early ’70s—and with the development … school seemed to have its own quarterly. Before long, the combined forces of identity politics and cheap desktop … The argument is already on over at the Mother Jones website. Feel free to comment there or share your …
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