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… to answer a few questions about the essay. 1. How did you come to be preoccupied with Ethiopia in the first place? I … and we wound up adopting a ten year old AIDS orphan and becoming, in entirely different ways, obsessed with the place. … taking this child. It’s not just that, of course, but it’s also that. To pretend that it’s not, that the process is …

… peeled off some currency, handed it over, picked up his briefcase and walked away, never looking back. Anne was caught … keep the aimless pedestrian on the correct line between two points. How different from the dim warren of hallways in the … with a distinctive passion that was at once cool and full bodied. That’s what Eric had been trying to say in his …

… claims for the efficacy of air power that had been common since the beginning of the century. Uncertain that … so demoralize or incapacitate the enemy as to render ground combat obsolete. More Utopian formulations, some of them … context for the war from both the Axis and the American points of view, to accept his designation of American …

… they envision TV love-bead hippies and cartoon animals and Perils of Pauline sawmills as he describes his former life on California’s North Coast, living in communes and cutting wood. Jessie starts imitating how the … the screams to flood the room; the noise is like poison. It dies down as the door closes and then it climbs back in when …

… On Whitman’s “To a Locomotive in Winter” In Wordsworth’s 1833 sonnet, … of “influential traditions of English prosody which forms points of departure, at least, for any indigenous rhythms … twinkle of thy wheels Thy train of cars behind, obedient, merrily-following, Through gale or calm, now swift, …