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… know with certainty where we end and Delbanco’s disembodied practitioners begin. One evening about one year ago, … of polite options at my disposal, I picked up my briefcase and began to leave the room. With my hand on the … famous Borges story “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote. ”26 And, of course, when I wrote my story abstract I hadn’t …

… children were born. Her canary bird hung at the window. He also was called Pierre. When Louise spoke to him softly in … French, he caroled and trilled with delight. Then Livaudais died. Many, years passed away and his widow still clung to … was no place in his thoughts for future events. He was incompetent to think at all. When his first child was born, he …

… dimension can your words fight their way in the world in competition with all the other robust contestants for your … any of them. His inability to enter sympathetically into medieval thought makes him misread history. The medieval monk … intricacies of modern physics, and skips over embarrassing points with the hush-hush air of a Victorian mother …

… Novelist To the End of the Land, by David Grossman. Knopf, $26.95 In thirteen books of fiction and nonfiction, including … language and angry curses, hectors Ilan and his fellow soldiers for not rescuing him. Grossman was a longtime radio … with small monuments—benches, plaques, trees, lookout points—dedicated to fallen soldiers. One such encounter …

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