Fine Distinctions
… Of Marsupials and Placentals Why are there no giant tree-climbing, … classification, but now that cladistic approaches are common—using behavior and ecological setting to guide … up next to a real saber-toothed placental cat, and so they died. And as for arboreal kangaroos, forget about it. One …
… mid-1980s? And is the Englishman with whom that narrator becomes fatally entangled related, somehow, to Anders … and later a MFA from the University of Iowa. There he studied, and drank, with Raymond Carver during the Bad Ray … in helping him beat addiction. This recurring dedication also provides a clue to the overarching theme of his novels. …
Essays
… incorporeal agency, that takes away a large part of his income if he is very rich, and gives him a large part of his … for almost fifty million dollars. This is a mere expedient and represents no saving at all, for under the … for museums, zoological and botanical gardens, etc., $265,000; and for health, sanitation, hospitals, and child …
Poetry
… learn to hate so purely it could have swept me cleanly and completely out of myself. Perhaps that’s what civilization … to be able to feel only one way. But who hasn’t imagined committing some unforgivable act? What does it prove that … the papers, afraid, sometimes, of what we understand. 525-526 By Lawrence Raab …
… The old slave tended the vegetable garden, prepared meals, dusted the villa, and occasionally went on errands to the city, always groaning and complaining at the distance, and almost refusing to go … did not really see either of you,” murmured the beggar, and died. III. Knowall and Believeall Find the Truth Once upon a …
… a few calls, tell stories on the phone of a brother who died though I have no brother who died; I make up a sad involved tale about my sister, and the … in bed instead of getting up; we have to let what wants us come in. We’ve both heard this before, this accurate …