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When to Build a Barricade
… middle-class American contemplated no other end than to die quietly in his bed, attended by his physician and, … Fascism is a creation of the last fifteen years; and while Communism is older, the average American who is now … For the normal young man is a bit of a fool. He is also the strength and hope of the nation, to be sure. He is …
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How I Write
… For the writer it is forever in the course of being studied through doing and new doing, and wouldn't last very … insight–that too is gone, displaced. Looking backward can't compete with looking forward with the story in progress–that … the doors behind me–you never dream the essentials can be simple again, within one story. But the vital …
The Dilemma of Edmund Ruffin
… then more. As production increases, virgin markets will become fewer. Some day an immovable glut may clog the whole … of this essay we may boil the contrast down to two main points. The slave lost his individual personality by virtue … the unfair distribution of the social product should be remedied by social control, but objected to socialism as a …
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Leon’s Fire
… that they had. Some talked shit about me in Navajo or Acoma or Zuni. Others stared at me flatly when I was wasting … you didn’t need to be a genius to do it. They just needed bodies, lots of bodies, and they went through them fast. I … of booze and cigarettes, and his long hair came to greasy points that shot out the back of his hard hat, bobbing …
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Tete A Tete
… Tete A Tete When a man dies, an unknown world passes away . St. Exupery, Wind, Sand …
The Map of A Poet’s Life
… heads in admiration. I have always associated Bishop, who died in 1979, the year I graduated from high school, with the coral pink cover of The Complete Poems and the hazy outline of the windmills and … work. The discussion of the poems in this last collection points out Bishop’s various permutations of the idea of loss …
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