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Fine Distinctions
Hair vs. Fur
… The ditty may not be suitable for work or for younger audiences, but it points to a tricky matter of trichoid distinction: namely, … in the strictest biotechnical terms, fur has two required components. If you can get close enough to a gorilla or a …
Grading the Lilies
… But no one came; no voice called out, “Ready or not, here I come!” She didn’t see a road but a maze. In the morning, she … unusually quiet for a Saturday night. Flynn wasn’t going to die. There would be no internal bleeding or some such horror … happened. She thought about her lilies, the pale green sepals bulging in the moonlight “Tell them I called to say hi, …
Just Now
… seen a copy of the original sin. The train Of thought becomes lost in the translation. One Tunnel too many. Just now … The mention of a name that sets me back. There is A false courage in numbers. The ties under the train Tracks, …
Armadillo
… of calcium. No love! No love! No more!     is your cry. / die! I die! Suicide!—     your one great scene, little … the gas stations and the Spanish fortress, where fire comes out of the ground (as in the Old Testament) to amaze … slowly curl their tails in the moonbit dusts of the road. 726-727 By Sandford Lyne …
What Caring Neighbors Do
… limousine approached the Congresses Palace in Bata, soldiers brandished whippy sticks to part the worthies in green … were sentenced to death, and 70 got prison terms of up to 26 years for “terrorism” and “undermining state security.” … Nguema of Equitorial Guinea (Equitorial Guinea government website). Yet Obiang is weak in other ways. A foreign …
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A Master Essayist Releases a New Collection
… remarked how he had “travelled a good deal in Concord,” I also explored a few little-known local sites.  One of my … pieces reprinted from a variety of publications such as Commentary , the New Criterion , the Weekly Standard , and … span an interesting array of subjects—old age, stand-up comics, contemporary poetry, intellectual freedom, the New …
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