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New Light on Anatole France
… Chateaubriand: “II est temps que pour lui la vie critique commence.” Regarding Anatole, the present writer has been … examining such problems we should consider the following points: France’s large journalistic production previous to … poem (1867) called “La Legende de Sainte Thais, comedienne.” The fundamentals of the legend are recounted here. …
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Nineteen Minutes
… just whimper, would she live, would the baby live? She was compelled to see what might happen. The deep groans of the … young men sometimes ran against each other, the strain of bodies pushed to their limits, the pain, the exhaustion, the …  “Maybe the TV,” she says.  “Very good.” Franckline points the remote at the television. Two women and a man …
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The Madness of It All: A Rumination on War, Journalism, and Brotherhood
… was constantly under observation by the NVA, and we did not come or go without their knowing it. Mostly we stayed inside … scout, Mike Bylinoski, was hit in the head by shrapnel and died on the medevac chopper. The one time I went outside our … wounded or crippled, or get killed. I must tell you also that it embarrasses me to say some of these things. No …
Building the Chicken Coop In Wassergass
… himself, for help, asking How long? What road? Will I die like this, choking on dust, coughing blood, shuffling my … names fade, one by one, into the dark beyond the window. 261-262 By Len Roberts …
A Man Who Lived Upon Learning
… After Giles learned the letters, he ate them, and they become both a literal and metaphoric part of his being. Next … a hornbook on which he inscribed a syllabary. The hornbook also quickly disappeared, for when Gaffer Gingerbread … a 19th-century Giles Gingerbread. Although James Murray’s diet was more substantial than Giles’s sugared texts, he too …
The Chronicle of Doubt
… world. Only the hack writer has escaped the necessary commitment of himself to a literature of terror; yet no … am I thinking either of the work of a group of writers— Galsworthy, Bennett, Wells, and others—who were not the first … took away from them, one after another, the main ingredients of the novel as it had developed before them: the …
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