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Gold Bugs
… The memory, if it is a memory, came to me only after she died. Didn’t we, I asked Dad and Willie, didn’t we collect … and ran into the dark mouth of the hospital. She did not come home for six more weeks. From then on I often woke in … I see Willie’s and my bare, tanned legs and dusty sandals swinging through the black wrought iron. Behind us, as …
The Two Kneelings of King Lear
… The Two Kneelings of King Lear As tragedies, King Lear and Othello resemble each other in how great … me have a surgeon, I am cut to the brains!” And when he comes out of his sleep (act 4, scene 7) and Cordelia asks … Here’s a spirit! Help me! Help me!” Edgar rushes forth also, clad in rags and filth, crying out a farrago of lunacy …
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Dead Enough?: The Paradox of Brain Death
… patients. Their divine perfection reverses death-like comas, arrests the voluminous flows of mortal hemorrhage, … emerge from end-stage liver disease and which ones will die on the operating room table. Whether you are … Louis Washkansky. Almost immediately, newspaper editorials began to question this surgical switching of parts, …
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The Conquest of Inner Space
… process of the suns. As to the increasing purpose I have no competence to speak, but it’ the thoughts of men have been … the globe that the species inhabits. They are agreed also that this 1·esult is due, not to any inherent defect in … demands, not the relegation to the background of such studies, but their strengthening and broadening by all possible …
The Latin Ice Kings
… than oxygen, floating in the golden air and the aroma of diesel exhaust from the semis banging above—and nobody, but … of the guys all have top-of-the-line K-2’s or Boxcars with competition wheels, what they probably had to steal and then … as if I, on my shitty thirty-five-buck Target Store specials with the scuffed black plastic pods of them and the …
Notes on Current Books, Summer 1978
… urged in vain for a more skeptical look at the Fascists and Communists. Nothing worked. Hitler triumphed, and the … in Richmond, and lists of Revolutionary officers and soldiers. This is a modest book, but then Richmond in 1775 was … and non-fiction. This is a highly selective study which points up Anderson’s continuing importance as a writer and …
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