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The Reader Is the Protagonist
… a week it rained every day. The storms kept us inside, but also, we were afraid to go out much, afraid to be seen. My … I was young. Our family life was often fraught: my father uncommunicative, physically absent, and emotionally cool; Mom … of the subjects seemed quirky, even fanciful: smuggling, soldiering, locksmithing, espionage. Others were devoted to …
Alberto Caeiro (Fernando Pessoa)
… and the flowers It isn’t enough not to be blind. It is also necessary to have no philosophy. With philosophy there … you’d of course be another child, One who wouldn’t even come around. Play in the dirt, play! I appreciate your … can arrive at a greater certainty? None. And none can come play outside my door. 4 December 1919 3. I lie down on …
The Green Room, Spring 1979
… separated lunch counters. Although Southern racism has not completely gone with the wind, there does now appear to be a … sought literary awards in Latin America. Jaime Sabines is also a Latin American poet, having made his reputation in … teaches classes in the 19th-century novel and women’s studies. Suzette A. Henke teaches English at the State …
Denis Johnson’s Higher Power
… mid-1980s? And is the Englishman with whom that narrator becomes fatally entangled related, somehow, to Anders … and later a MFA from the University of Iowa. There he studied, and drank, with Raymond Carver during the Bad Ray … in helping him beat addiction. This recurring dedication also provides a clue to the overarching theme of his novels. …
Three Fables
… The old slave tended the vegetable garden, prepared meals, dusted the villa, and occasionally went on errands to the city, always groaning and complaining at the distance, and almost refusing to go … did not really see either of you,” murmured the beggar, and died. III. Knowall and Believeall Find the Truth Once upon a …
Since Versailles
… nature: on the one hand economic relations which have become close and which exact a common organization, on the … an interpretation as possible to the League Pact, on points under discussion. They even went so far as to propose … accessible than any other to a just argument, that in 1926 the American Senate resolved to face squarely the …
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