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The Walking Rain
… table mirror. While I daubed Sortilège perfume on my pulse points, rubbed my gleaming just-shaven legs with baby oil, … you numberless infinities Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go. . . . It was the time of Donne and Dostoyevsky, … they’re shaking up the corn for Bingo. Big night at the FCC.” There, he hasn’t quite said it again. We each wish, in …
Twenty Years After Dallas
… a lost weekend, and I started writing it the next afternoon coming back from Washington, where we’d gone with Stevenson … could feel the way she did—that when our president died we had lost a friend. And not only Americans. He was … Kennedy began finally doubting the euphoria of his own generals and advisers. He had seen Indochina in the early 1950’s …
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An Open Letter to Jonathan Franzen
… some of what you had to say, disagree with you on other points, but what I really wish is that you had someone in … with people about, say, gun control or corporate subsidies: I start to use a vocabulary that I know very well my … She founded and edits Full Grown People . You can visit her website at www.jenniferniesslein.com . By Jennifer Niesslein …
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The Crossover Beard; or, the True Story of Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (Among Other Things)
… the gate. Suddenly the SOUND of the sirens is heard again, coming towards us. The M.P. pops to attention and salutes as … unsmiling, completely, it seems, without emotion. Obedient, servile, almost like robot men. Yet they are alive. … Karen watches him go, pained and concerned. DISSOLVE 26) INT. LAB DAY A full view of a large scientific space …
Notes on Current Books, Spring 2001
… colonies of the mainland, colonists in the British West Indies did not support the American insurrectionists when the … Alone: The Poet T. S. Eliot , by Denis Donoghue. Yale $26.95 Eliot has been ill handled in recent years, perhaps … elements of history that escape capital’s logic. He points to the importance of these external elements, …
The Rose Garden
… house where I was born. 2 In the spring old people love to come here. They waddle slowly in thick grass and stoop to … watch the small mirror fall between them. 8 What the child points to the mother ignores. Three children are too many … and sing to. 12 One man, middle-aged, carries a silver briefcase and sets up his expensive camera and tripod and in his …
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