"Though he had killed by accident, not once did he feel the need to tell himself, that it had been an accident. He was black and he had been alone in the room where a white girl had been killed: therefore he had killed her. That was what everyone would say, anyhow, no matter wha...
"Guess he's been in Starkfield too many winters." (Author's Introductory Note) Harmon Gow speculates on the cause of Ethan Frome's ruined and prematurely aged appearance. His remark expresses the theme of the landscape's shaping of character and fate.
~E. B. White Poetry — even bad poetry — may be our final hope. ~Edward Abbey ...the terrified little poets Gaping and gasping at your table, while You talk like your own poems, splintering Colours hard and clean as onyx, spinning Phrases in prismatic whorls that flicker Jewels of ...
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“In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don’t dare disobey” (II, p. 4).The narrator has been in a plane wreck in the Sahara desert, a thousand miles from anywhere. Suddenly, the little prince appears from nowhere and demands the pilot draw
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