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Tom Wolfe: Penance No More
… something has spoken in the night; and told me I shall die, I know not where. Losing the earth we know for greater … over me at the water-cooler, looking fierce, his whole face compressed, swaying with hands on his hips. “Look,” he said, … with his teaching and with what he conceived to be the false values of many of his colleagues. Their preciosity, …
Shakespeare and His Friends
… Artist” is the fruit of a life’s study; the “practically completed” work of Edgar I. Fripp, who died in 1931, edited by F. C. Wellstood. Mr. Fripp attempted … a romantic interest in the frequent association with the annals of our colonial life and the names that are recalled …
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Cod World
… and the North Atlantic. Last night, until the blizzard died about 2 a.m., the wind roared constantly at fifty miles … Geiry steers the boat and watches a map of well-used GPS waypoints now overlaid upon an underwater map. These … from outside nations desiring the island’s riches. In 1262, Icelanders finally ceded themselves to Norway, only to …
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Under Pressure
… blood vessels, to let more blood through. Nitroglycerin is also one of the most explosive substances in the world. N2O … “Stay with me, look at me, Rianna, you’re not going to die.” Blurred remembrance of hallucinating in the hospital: … me deep down. Seeking out chaos, he suggests, is my way of coming home to that, finding comfort. It feels true. “Of …
Notes on Current Books, Autumn 1998
… executed 103 heretics between 1557 and 1562, “more than died in the whole of Spain” during that five-year period), … Many of the essays are reprinted; all deserve to be reread. Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the … by the police. By telling the story through many different points of view, the conflict between the Martinican Creole …
The Duckling Essays
… The signature ink was barely dry on my Ph.D. when the Community College of Baltimore gave me my first teaching job … all around me, my fingers gripped bloodless on my new briefcase. I’d spent about 15 years preparing for this. Last … , no “In the Penal Colony,” and don’t even think of Malone Dies .” “Why not?” “Because they can’t understand the words …
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