1548 6 5
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What a nation!
First we lost our money
Now we’ve lost our funny
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15481511
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Early Spring, 1075, Northumbria: Judith, too ashamed to speak, too angry to cry, waves her handmaiden away. She wants no food. Wind drives icy rain across the thickness of…
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154861
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I do not know what zinzins is, what a zinzins is, who zinzins is.
I do not want to know
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154800
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Part of me feels like a wounded animal surrounded by hungry cougars. Another part of me feels like being mauled by a cougar might not be that bad. A third part of me wishes he could punch the second part of me in the face.
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154854
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It was uncomfortable to realize people had agendas. That there could be invisible realities.
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154886
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If I seemed disappointed after our conversation,
then, for the record, that was never the case.
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15471212
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Not only half-full/
but stress-fractured
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1547710
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From room to room, neither closet nor drawer contained any remnant of pleasant memory.
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1547148
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an undercurrent of fear is running through my community
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1547104
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"Middle class workers and working class poor and the unemployed will soon be forming a revolutionary movement to break this stranglehold of corrupt elites."
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154764
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My mother moved her things out of my parents’ bedroom into the attic guest room. When I asked where guests would sleep, my father said, “Matthew, don’t be an asshole.”
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154787
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I supposed reluctantly that Princeton is soft as Macalester College is soft. A person could die just for having attended U.W.-Madison or Yale.
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1547143
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Of all the authors in the library, it was a wife from Maryland who called out from her marriage dormer I was not to read her.
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154742
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True facts about Redbeard the communist pirate.
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154700
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Caster had always imagined the Consensus as a big room, as big as the world, filled with white space and people with quantum wings, flitting about, creating information. There were tinted bubbles for people to share for privacy, and the lights never went
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15471110
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That won’t kill me, will it? I asked. Maybe, the doctor said.
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154732
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“Life is on life’s terms,” she told me once. Her arm, wrapped in clear cellophane, was freshly adorned with a green-pigmented sand-dollar: a living shell.
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1547157
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Mark Reep is a faded Polaroid oracle taped to the only unbroken window of an abandoned house in Ithaca NY.
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154665
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faith in gravity/permitted them to extol/the guillotine's blade.
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154684
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God had decided to resign. Not even two weeks notice. He just resigned. Point blank.
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154652
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“I would like to keep my head, at least for a few more nights. Didn't you say we were gonna have sex one of these days? Isn't that in the manual?”
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154611
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Her cash. It smelled like seven-dollar-a-quart gardenia perfume and cave aged cheese—like hope overgrown with mildew.
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154611
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Route 346 is the way Pop drove to Troy long after everybody else took Route 2. Today Charlie and I drive in the opposite direction. Back then, Pop drove us to Troy on Route 346 on Sunday afternoons with the car windows…
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1546126
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because you pay/
for it to matter to me.
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1546104
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feet that would run until their soles were pages of Gideon’s Bibles, worn too thin to touch
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154651
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Juan’s tío, Richard, who works for the city and is the kind of Mexican who thinks he isn’t, took care of the lawyer. Juan checks himself in the mirror, didn’t know how good dressing fancy would feel.
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154677
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154522
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There's a large tunnel that runs under my house. I can only estimate but it's not deep below the ground and that's what worries me.
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154560
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Velvet answered the door in a red leather dress that was made with just about enough material to make a wallet, and looking like a long limbed drink of water calling out to a thirsty man.
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15451410
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The knees remind you: you are old,/
and broken, and unlikely to improve
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