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. . . the empiricism of the mechanical had wound tight into her, lessons her few calendars could never impart without aid from sundials, hourglasses, clocks.
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153151
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153100
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One minute Rudy was sitting up close to me, asking me how could Geppetto make a little boy out of a piece of wood, and the next, Steve was pounding up the stairs, yelling, "Carla, get blankets, warm clothes; we're leaving, we won't be back."
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1531140
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“I was just dreaming about you,” he said, sleepy-voiced. “What's for breakfast?”
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1531105
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addict for validation and cat tongues
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153022
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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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153060
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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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15301210
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153021
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the little crummy salon that churned out little fat women with pinked curly hair
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153022
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Jason, the obnoxious host, thrusts his microphone against my nose.
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153032
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I turned a maiden to a witch / and back again
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153098
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"Sara, do you taketh it with your eyes?"
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153011
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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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153054
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Christmas night was closing in at the Cantrips alehouse in Aberdeen, a firm favourite for riggers and other men and women who lived life close to the horizon. Sometimes, on a Saturday night, things might get a bit rowdy but Mother O'Grady would stand firm and bring out…
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153032
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When we arriveand are met by strange friendsstrange like the fog on the redreed mudflatsthat span the low tide around Incheon -When we arrivecarrying so much we will not needlike the bus they hire to take us through the darksix people to fill so much more space - When…
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Here’s the keys to the house
Here’s the keys to the car
I’m going out and I don’t care
I’m going out to buy a cigar
Don’t bother locking up after I leave
I’m not coming back anymore
I’m going to drink whiskey out of a jar
Go out and buy
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One can watch the grass green/
in response. One can watch the world green/
in response.
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15301814
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The phone rings. The oven beeps./
The locomotive whistles and howls.
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1530108
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153076
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I keep attempting to start a correspondence with people / but they end up not being interested in me, / either that or I scare them away / because I usually begin with: / “Well, my favorite philosopher is Hegel..."
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153000
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Megumi paused for a moment, understanding Mrs. Akamatsu’s concern, but looking back at the Society, she shook her head in rejection.
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153052
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"I found a grey pubic hair the other day."
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153042
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The following is a true story, or rather it is a true experience from the story of my life. Some say that just because something happens doesn’t really make it “true”.
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1530117
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He flipped through a book of poems Ani’d given me. Nothing fell out so he tore it in two. I said his mama must notta read to this one and one of the older cops laughed and he hit me.
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153042
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You want to get laid talking socks
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153031
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My mind raced at the endless possibilities one could die while driving to get a pizza.
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153011
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I have hired a relationship consultant. He helps me through conversations with my wife.
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153041
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On our back porch, the tiki torches are lit and so am I.
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153086
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Although I think we can easily work it out because we are not here in the Yale graduate school, and diction is the theme of the story. Diction is a choice in language.
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153031
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I am calling to tell you what’s going to happen tomorrow.
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