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… dreary the rest of the world was—was roughly analagous to comparing Xanadu with a federally subsidized … had seen her. Christine wondered about anorexia. She would also like to know, from Maury, whether Maury took drugs, if … laughing and kidding around and acted as if a cop had come to the door of a party. They had been buying scallops. …

… and freshened the scene and made it as new as it had just come out of the hands of the Creator. Then the Lake. What an … years. After a brief interlude as Professor of Spanish Studies at Oxford, he assumed a variety of diplomatic and … in his or her inner essence the essence of one or more animals.” Seflor de Madariaga’s spirit is that of a bird: “I …

… Trying to Keep Faith: Adrienne Rich’s “Usonian Journals 2000” In the “Artworks (II)” section of “Usonian … Rich’s work of the last two decades imagines and embodies a jazz-inflected process that bears witness to … a temple to greed. Staring into the political abyss, she comes to the realization that “I was no longer connected …

… In America   Late afternoon, late February in San Diego, the sky a gauze bandage             of blue light, … to marry him, he’s finally going to do it.             He points to the Band-Aid on his arm and tells me he sold his … know what to say about his dreams, which I believe will come to nothing, because this is America,             where …

… solemn procedure were the near relatives of those about to die; presumably, as a rule their children or grand-children. … group, those who can no longer keep the pace are made as comfortable as possible with a little fire, a few scraps of … some deep-seated general characteristics of human individuals or human societies, or perhaps that they trace back of …