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Notes on Current Books, Autumn 1981
… off on his journey. The astronauts of today have their own computer-drawn maps, but those computers are of course … history in recent years has generated scores of new studies on the problem of slavery in early American law. Paul … incredible adventures of sea-faring men. This collection of 26 short tales, arranged chronologically from the 17th …
The Fairy Whip
… Fairy Whip, mostly because it’s the very first ride as you come in the door. My mom says I started us riding together, … after another for him, and he was never sure when they were coming. He’s not crying anymore in those later pictures; he … of the time we were there. For almost a week, nobody ate meals together, and my dad didn’t even come along when we …
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This Holy Hill
… stone and human flesh. And that awful realization would come too: that a coveted place is just a place, and … be dead somewhere       is a joy to rest the heart Let me die here where I don’t want to die And I thought of that idea often when studying Jenna …
A New Age Now Begins: History As Bunk
… cocktail party. Women’s Lib, Gay Lib, Indian rights, communal living, back to nature, ecology, consumerism, and … rebellion, for they stand for our future wholeness” (p. 269). The Boston Tea Party was “guerrilla theater” (p. 384). … greater physical hardship than the professional British soldier,” for “the Americans were fighting for their liberties …
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How to Be Afraid in America
… pasts they arrive from and the futures they promise if we become so bold as to forget that the stories we tell to scare … la cerveza más fina —was rumored to contain a special ingredient: urine. This was, of course, untrue, but the rumor … the cheap now that it has lost its hermetic seal, but you also have to accept the potential for food poisoning. It’s …
The Flatwoods. A Sketch
… the yards washed to the bare bones of rock. But they would come. Having deserted it for prosperity they had assumed the … staring upward at the old house—they had their pictures also, but this ungenteel decay, dropping suddenly after a … is it comes over you Southern people to let your old things die, to—” “Economics,” she interrupted drily, sleeking her …
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