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… Peut-Être Combien? They had left the city during the same week eight … The couple-month lag between James’s letter and his had also become characteristic. Though that first time there was … she took him away from you. And oh when I knew, my heart it died. I wouldn’t show it. I was too, you know, proud? But my …

… with the mushy green spittle and the acrid stink that had accompanied the ostrich catcher’s habit for the day and night … of Aden. Deserts were the birthplaces of prophets but also the playgrounds of jinns and shape-shifters. He had … alight with brightly colored straw mats. Jama lay down obediently but couldn’t stop his eyes from roving around. “Do …

… married it was to a cousin, a tubercular child of thirteen. Committing himself to the freelancer’s life, he lived at the … as to suggest its origin in his dreams. Premature burials, revenge murders, and multiple-personality disorders … W. H. Auden, another Poe critic, D. H. Lawrence, in his Studies in Classic American Literature, finds the gothic tales …

… the Industrial Workers of the World and the mine owners had complained that union activities interfered with “getting … speakers at Liberty Loan rallies openly called their audiences pro-German and threatened to denounce them to the … expelled from that body. What amounted to heresy trials were held all over the country, directed especially …

… I think, oniy a coincidence that Unamuno’s perplexity is also mine: the fiery Basque philosopher is fervid. Here lie … abstracted reality of books is more gratifying, comfortable, and exciting than that ordinarily calm and … and audibly, of expatiating on his own surprises, becomes a substitute for a reality outside of books that is …