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… Best 200 Words I Read All Week. From fact to fiction, from comedic to tragic, we hope you find as much to admire in … selections as we do.       Click  here for access to the complete project archive    1.  “When my daughter Nicole was … in her field of vision, and she makes revisions using a combination of gestures and eye movements. For all practical …

… The Birthday It is 3 a.m. at the Maywood Street Co-op when Eddie finds the sea anemone floating in the bathtub. He is … friends of friends who take one hit of acid and never come back. Coherence, he knows, can slip away from you. … to Diana what he had looked like as a very young boy, and also what he would look like as a very old man, when …

… career, such an unusual, not to say bizarre, task? He had completed and, in the preceding six years, had published the … in his lifelong literary ambitions, honored by as fit an audience as even he might have wished, and probably larger … Sir Walter Scott, an early editor of the works of Dryden (1826), also dismissed any such ambition on Shaftesbury’s part, …

… by father Edmund Fielding himself: professional soldier, gambler, careless parent who sired children and then … The contradictory sides of Fielding’s character, Battestin comments, seem to have been bred in the bone, “the lawyer … The sister expires in Booth’s arms and the episode reveals a “previously unsuspected, emotional conflict, the claim …

… I try to think of something else. . . “P.C.,” the initials on the dental unit in front of me. These were Paula’s initials. The Chapmans lived on Riverside Drive obliquely across … held The Wandering Jew by Eugene Sue. Mr. Chapman had studied for the Ph.D. but universities wouldn’t hire a Jew so …