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… the eponymous Columbus is a passive spectator, a built-in audience to an action in which he plays no part. More … the sheer amount of verse turned out by Ames, from 1726, the first year of his almanac, until his death in 1764, … vista westward, for, turning his back on New England, he points to “Lands yet unknown and streams without a name,” …
… himself—where, with an act of positive virtue, he actually commits himself to play the role of Tom Sawyer which he has … increasing vehemence, the utilitarian. Huck represents both points of view. In small matters he is our archpragmatist: … in these late stories results from the fact that he had died in his author’s hands. Huck in his own book was free, …
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… and smoke. I thought often of what it seemed we had in common. We both sold things that lit up, but her days were … and my wife hadn’t had it cleaned since the woman died. I kept finding cough-drop wrappers and limp, years-old … who’d been so generous, that he could stop giving us vials of ejaculate on ice. Lev came some nights to leave notes …
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… Walcott’s voice, “the world unravels.” It is a voice concomitant with the sea, and by connection, history. As I … , The Prodigal , and White Egrets , all move serially, completely in sway with the early vow made in “Islands”: … I sit here I can see him at the edge of the water [Walcott points to the sea] or sitting on one of the chairs, you …
… he might as well have worn a sign saying Enemy of the Common Man. In the second place, as a hypocrite, Pat fooled … on his taxes, claimed deductions and collected crop subsidies; and yet he couldn’t resist hinting proudly of this … learned that bonds on which the state was paying $265 million per year in principal and interest would soon …
… species coexisted happily with the rather exotic professionals created by the Rogers Act of 1924. Even the brusque … the measure of an envoy’s loyalty and even capability had become nakedly monetary. Foreign governments, which gauge … of the 1960’s, when numerous politicians found it quite expedient to ornament their front offices with blacks and pander …