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… had mastered oven-lighting we could proceed to some really complicated things, like melted cheese sandwiches. We could … than renters. A newcomer in the class was an event, but also an intrusion, and Melanie hadn’t looked particularly … cheeks and small green eyes. She was still carrying her briefcase, a really sloppy one with gashes in it and bandaids …
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Man, Man, Et Cetera
… She catches you staring and she grins. Then a man comes out of the mini-mart and hands her an iced tea before … sign on the ground floor of her building. When your sister comes down to let you in, her face is red and wet with … the Hudson.  In Washington Square you take off your sandals and sit at the edge of the fountain to dip your feet. …
Black Valley and the Tree of Life
… might view an acquarium filled with interesting but incomprehensible life. Wast studies the life of his gentlemen farmers of the Argentine … occidental), and a world fantasy and impossible ideals that are peculiar to the Spaniard. And since the …
Story Without End
… and stared at her, “Who must you be, Josie?” “You are coming, you are coming, I must be prepared,” came in a chant … his teeth were white ivory with gold fillings and diamond points, and when he smiled you could see clear down to his … face, and the dragon curled up like a limp autumn leaf and died right there by the village gate. And the people came …
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New America and Old China in Dystopian Novels
… and A Gesture Life (1999) respectively, realized that “a component of [his] interest in China was an anxiety about … the backdrop of the failed student uprising that bloodied Tiananmen Square. Among those who have dared to voice … murder is unspooled in snatches of flashback and rotating points of view. The question of who has committed the crime …
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Thousands of Words: Galleries in Books
… and influences have us looking at more pictures while our comprehension and retention of them decreases. What does it … life coincides with most of the twentieth century. When he died in 1999, he left behind 100,000 negatives and more than … television (in fact, before rural electrification), periodicals did what some TV programs still attempt to do. Before …
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