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… A Skit-Scat Societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals? But what about animals’ cruelty to humans? What about … kitten, a waif and stray — hence her name!—of the perfectly common or garden grey-and-white variety, alone and … — how can one accept what is already his? She is finished, complete, perfect. Her slightest movement, the faintest …

… things smaller—the Kurzym Bypass, ideal for reducing highly complex pieces of machinery, for instance, or Montclaire’s … droplets of water—fill me with a great anxiety. I have also, claiming allergies, given the cat to a friend and have … to admit it, I felt some pride in this. One of the many complaints we face in my office is that in the process of …

… their obsessions. Gordon, who is a science writer, is also known as “The Bug Chef.” He often travels around the … them. I’ve even heard of kids burying their bugs that have died of old age in the backyard. In our culture, a beetle … like going out and having green beans.  So how did you become the rare Westerner who is interested in eating insects? …

… been disguised by familiarity, “The Hundred Years War” has come to have a life of its own, a moment in time which is … that “It is arguable that the Hundred Years War was medieval England’s greatest achievement.” That the concept is, … as far as the siege of Calais in 1347. His second volume, also of about 600 pages, ends in 1369. Or, to focus on a …

… have to & in leaving, ensured that at least one of us would die. I have one photograph of him as a child & in it he & my … silence. I think if you look at something hard enough it becomes obsolete, or you do, that your name turns to smoke & … the two boys, behind the woods & all the high-school scandals beginning,   discreetly, within them, a plume of smoke …