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A Jungle Tiananmen
… down a washboard gravel road—some left-of-nowhere oil company throughway punched into the Peruvian Amazon—when the … black boots, approached the car, a machine gun over his soldier. I wanted to go home. “It is routine,” Plinio said. “It … Then he said, “Look!” In the distance we saw three tiny points of light bobbing their way toward us—three Indians …
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On Death and Decluttering
… other’s presence, vaguely yet certainly, in the way of animals on opposite sides of an open field, at night. The … for help, a proper introduction is made. Having prepared to die, the two women find themselves adrift on their … as inevitable, even desirable, that their homes should come to resemble the big-box selling floors they frequent. …
Convention
… to convince Angie. And since Angie Warner ought to be accompanied by a full-time nurse, and since she refused to … typed in triple-space by his secretary, was in his briefcase, tucked carefully under the seat in front of him, but … publishing acquaintances, a religious jobber from San Diego with an enormous bald head, and the two of them traded …
C.S. Lewis and His Critics
… Lewis visited him twice in his home shortly after he died and “spoke a few words which were particularly relevant … of Lewis’s early life and academic career are similarly uncomplicated. He was born in 1898 in Belfast, Northern … thing,” Allen concludes, breathing heavily, “to which Freud points as evidence that religion is good enough for the …
Of Soap
… except the color of one’s skin. Like customs, children die. Who will pour water for us? Whom will we tell of …
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The Alphabet, for Naima
… Blood on a sock. N is for nature and nearly and how I’ve come To love; nearly, nearly I come to you, my falcon Hood pulled tight; my talons tucked; … would not Touch your leaf, afraid his rot would Make the petals fall . A lovely love— No, not at all. Q is for quince , …
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