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… of brilliance, haze, Diffusion, lustre, and utter absence comprise The antarctic palette. Our balancing trick Is to … the emptiness even of reaching The pole, of seeing the compass spin; we cling To hatreds: willful, petty, and … begins to encroach, We try and fail to read the story as comic. Absolute zero, the point at which we must Stop and …

… North Winter Coming of winter is a beech sapling rising silverly in a … consciousness although the small green pellets mean a hard diet.   The tamarack with needles lost and a thousand curled … right the air is filled with thousands and thousands of points of light like the fireflies come back only tinier and …

… seemed to wonder what it all amounted to or who she was becoming. Her thing with Henry was part of it, too. She liked … and getting that generator started wouldn’t be easy—but he also knew that on a Friday in late August the chance of … He mostly cares about his work and making money. My mom died when I was a baby, so it was just the two of us growing …

… saw the claws thrust out and withdraw and then only the clawpoints were visible in the pads. He stood up, glancing … below, they had quarreled because of his determination. “Come on, woman,” he said, turning his head. A coat of … stood gazing at that awful chasm, already gasping at the eddies of hot saturated air, upon which, like almost tangible …

… Berg Collection of the New York Public Library. Brooke, who died of blood poisoning in 1915 on his way to fight for the … Brooke-Strachey letters was elicited by Strachey’s having become Freud’s main translator into English; Freud had picked … was still trying to encourage Brooke’s writing talent; but also Strachey revealed something of his own sort of thinking …