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… of microbiology at the University of Tennessee, studies microbes that have absurdly long lifespans. Many of … of how long we’d been traveling. All the usual reference points of existence—light, a horizon line, sky—were gone. … stayed in her cave for eighty-eight days, and Senni went 126 days before emerging. When Laures came out, on March 12, …
Poetry
… “…the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is fam’d to do.” Adieu, Adieu. Anathema be your accolade. And may your plaintive …
… Theroux has written a lot about traveling by train. He has also lived in Africa. So far as I can recall he has never … that Second or Third World travel and I are not too compatible. When our 30th anniversary came up, Susan wanted … go on an African camera safari. I wanted to go to Italy. We compromised on a trip that included a game reserve near …
… and drove across the river to pick up the drummers who had come up from Nashville. A migrant countryman from Defeated … 19th-century imperial wealth depended more upon soldiers, sailors, and rulers of colonies trained at public … of the 19th-century Whig historians. As Herzen said, Green points out, Macaulay was the Scott of his generation. Dreams …
Fiction
… seemed barely to hold on, what was under there, if the soldiers had left that part of Him alone. But we didn’t talk … use the bathroom, but she’d be right back. I needed her to come back, so that time would keep moving. We hadn’t made … stench of my body rose up. Not only my stale breath, but also the musk from my armpits. I dropped my chin and felt …
… shall go to my pine pole mountain shack. Before the autumn comes and summer goes, Before leaves fall—I must be going … and our roots are dry— Oh, wash our dusty teeth before we die!” The muddy rain-clouds rose in the northwest And muddy … sound, Lonely as water running under ground. Autumn will come upon us like a thief And lonesome winds will blow and …