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Dry Days
… far. “They will roll you,” the ranch matriarch warns. Next comes a swift procession of people. One leans in to give a … of all that dung, give the infants to the higher mammals with the softest fur.…   3. Purple petals struggle for … sprout. Durum wheat, soybeans, flaxseed, canola, and peas die in dirt.  “It ain’t gonna grow in the bins,” one farmer …
Fine Distinctions
Lies, White Lies, Fibs, and Other Fictions
… got a good laugh over what seemed an absurdity, but a medieval scholastic would have taken the point: He had worked the edges of the mendacium but not the falsiloquium , for in strictest terms Bill Clinton was … first things that Eve learned in the Garden of Eden, lying comes very early on in every child’s education, its …
California Dreaming
… encouraged this view by giving priority to “being and becoming” over “doing and happening” when he spoke of his own … had returned to London after their trip to the West Indies and Central America that furnished material for Beyond … Aldous Huxley first visited the United States in 1926. By that time he had published 13 books (three of them …
Notes on Current Books, Summer 1981
… Papacy, as well as historical prophesy in Dante. Poetic studies include Aristotelian influence, the legacy of Latin … evolution and place as a poetic theorist. Critical standpoints include classical and modern points of view. There … $45 This is a fully annotated English version of all the 126 discovered letters by the musical giant of the early …
Codfish Chowder and Sun
… tops, if you were spry, and you must have the myrrh of the balsams in your nose along with the smell of the sea all a … darker and deeper blue between the white crests that are coming in from far Spain. The sea and the sun get in under your soul. I cannot begin to tell you all the ingredients you mix together to make this day of bliss. Somewhere …
Mother’s Day Visit to the Pietà
… he was born, she would have to be a frazzled fifty when he died at thirty-three. So why do they sculpt and paint her as … for no good end, every night the possibility of some disembodied voice from some important, impersonal place like the … disposal to his lunchbox after school, the rat’s nest of uncombed hair this morning, already late on her way to make …
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