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… memoir, it’s rare to find such an insightful book that is also so personal. Dark Age Ahead, by Jane Jacobs. Random … great friendships and how to survive when your best friend dies. Patchett bares all. The resulting insights are sometimes banal, sometimes blinding—a lot like life. 269 …
… penetrated an atom and been deviated by the nucleus, are compared with an imaginary South American customs officer … of the main sequence of stars has thus been found, and also with the further deduction that the sun should continue … until, at long last, it will contract rapidly and become a faint white dwarf. The subsequent discussion of the …
Talisman
… like my friend, it would be a naked declaration that I was committing myself to writing, that I had even created a … that then somehow seemed to both penetrate and then become these now-living spirits called characters. I would … years, painted blue and yellow, enclosing our initials in red. There are the two stones she gave me before we’d …
… she wanted to do: she didn’t roll her eyes, didn’t say, Oh, come off it, Mother B ! Whenever Mom tells that story, … And so he doesn’t disown them as acquaintances or golf buddies, and he doesn’t harangue them every time they use the … my great aunts, my parents, my sisters, me. At different points in our lives, everyone in my family—both immediate …
… more than a year later, January 9, 1776, he published “Common Sense,” a pamphlet that made him famous, linked his … of responding to it with the zeal of its contemporary audiences—for two reasons, one minor and one major. The minor … of passionate eloquence, true too that Paine scored telling points against Burke, some of them ethical, some of them …
Poetry
… my bones have ground fine like my mother’s if I promise I come by them honestly will you swap out my joints or— will … shall I tell you I obeyed my doctors or— will I present as combative and what if we pretend I’m a man and what if our … if I’m late can I run to catch it will I catch it before I die will I take hikes with radiant butches will I be better …