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… Soon, though, I am entangled in a thicket of thought. Like false analogies, briars snag my arguments while buts, … and the more I struggle to escape the worse entrapped I become, until finally I collapse exhausted in a heap … that birds and fish were remarkably alike. When a bird died, it fell down from the sky to the earth. When a fish …
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The Immortals
… then, to their horror, he told them. He had temporarily become another person. An insufferable person, he later … friends, not since college. But still … When your ex-wife dies—when she is decapitated —wouldn’t someone do the … him—a boxy suitcase about the length and width of a briefcase but much deeper. Inside was a variety of cleaning …
The Last Available “Place in the Sun”
… for the present at least, the European elements are so completely in control of the politics, commerce and finances … transportation and the development of industry. He then studied the popula tion from the point of view of its racial … stressed, however. Night is winter along the Line. At many points under the equator the whole annual range of …
A Philologist Looks At “Finnegans Wake”
… sooner had he done so than he became the leader of a cult, complete with disciples, philosophy, and shrines. The … His later work, dribbled out in bits in the little periodicals published and read by the faithful, and now given to the … but it will not explain the continual and extremely complicated punning. Thus “straight as a wall” is punned …
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Ice Cream, Socialized
… Foreign Relations, Castro was angered by several of the audience’s questions and stormed out. Upon returning to … twenty-six flavors—presumably in homage to the failed July 26, 1953, rebel attack on the Moncada army barracks that … in tank tops and tight jean shorts. Down the line, a beefcake with aviator sunglasses blew a kiss to a woman …
Reprint, Summer 1998
… draws from a broad range of evidence to illuminate the high points of the war and puncture its popular and enduring … is offering a paper edition of William W. Savage, Jr.’s Commies, Cowboys, and Jungle Queens: Comic Books in America, … A third Princeton paperback reprint is The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology by Ernest A. …
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