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The Boll Weevil, the Iron Horse, and the End of the Line: Thoughts on the South
… the Boll Weevil because when the little gas-electric locomotive-coach was placed in service in the early 1920’s the … to eradicate the cotton crop. What it represented and embodied was change . Throughout the South there were many … that—he shook his head— that—       (Signet Book ed., p.260). This is a marvelous passage. What Bill Barrett wishes …
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The Idol of the Tribe
… delay me. Snow, rain, heat, etc.   can’t stay me from the completion  of my dismantling you, my being rid of you.  I … their true proportions.  How small they always were—  not false, but trivial. I make a heap out of you.  You’re not dead, of course. You said yourself you can never die, so that was never the point. The point is this: Here, …
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Is Self-Publishing the Most Important Transformation in the Publishing Industry?
… nine people from a wide cross-section of the publishing community. That’s not to say the other sessions were … , kicked off with a discussion of no fewer than three studies that attempt to uncover the motivations and attitudes … to an earlier author study in 2013 by Digital Book World , also publicized at industry events.) One wonders: After …
Individualism and Its Discontents
… them. The duel between individualistic “rights talk” and communitarian “responsibility talk” used to be a roughly … form or another, as a wholly positive thing, the key ingredient in what it means to be American. Such a view is, of … of the law to be an exceptionally blunt instrument. But she points us toward an understanding of individual dignity …
Charles Dickens and the Law
… us as the various qualities of mind and heart which we have come to associate with such memorable characters as David … and lacked the means of paying them. This prison, Marshalsea, figures prominently in Little Dorrit , even as it did … “”Have you concluded your argument?” “”Mlud, no—variety of points—feel it my duty tsubmit— ludship,” is the reply that …
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Translators and Alchemists
… I was given a copy of Paideia, the workbook that formerly accompanied the Scripps National Spelling Bee, and told to … into a projectile brush. Here, as in Brown’s work, a full-bodied practice in an entirely other discipline—dancing, … expression somewhere between a grimace and a jeer as she points a handgun at the viewer. The X suggests her …
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