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Migraine
… refrigerator; it is in these shoes, the skins of dead animals nobody mourned. Dead things can’t ask for help. For … I listened to all night was just some more pain wanting in. Come in. Live in the center, hated, take everything, Let’s … We can keep our pain; we can keep dying. When the body dies it grows stiff and swells with all it had kept to …
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The Resurrectionists
… speckled floors, and my dad, in lab coat, delivering quick comfort to people—in charge, certain. I suppose this is my … the operating table, but in their research. They needed bodies to study. Hunter was a known grave robber. … The plaque bearing Byrne’s name enumerated a few points about his life and fame. The vagaries of his death …
The Yea and Nay of It
… life, and death. It does not threaten his business nor his comforts nor his measure of social esteem. On the other … her you must be faithful. The Fundamentalist in every age points out how reason perpetually discovers its own errors. … of immeasurably greater significance than could be embodied in one science or one scientist. Those who attend the …
Four Ways of Criticism
… Thought. By Bernard Smith. New York: Har-court, Brace and Company. $3.00. Shakespeare. By Mark Van Doren. New York: … we never see him except when he is playing a part, to an audience or for his own benefit. Perhaps the very essence of … for all the subtle overtones that Mr. Van Doren reveals in him—or perhaps creates for him. Cleanth Brooks is in …
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The Price of Black Ambition
… ambition like Black History Month, a celebratory month I’ve come to dread as a time when people take an uncanny interest … dreams and black possibilities.” In that same essay, Coates also writes about how the narrative of personal … written helped. Seeing so many supportive people in the audience helped. The booksellers were a delight. I was next …
Across the Border
… seems to happen in California. Out of that fact have come a lot of doomsday cults and apocalyptic works of … directly, for example, from Dona Juana Machado, born in San Diego in 1814, and from Louise Clappe, one of four women … American literature,” and Amy Tan. Although at a few points it seemed to me that Wyatt’s assertions about gender …
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