Soon after, the boy reappears to report that Godot will not be coming. The boy states that he has not met Vladimir and Estragon before and he is not the same boy who talked to Vladimir yesterday, which causes Vladimir to burst into a rage at the child, demanding that the boy remember ...
One night, an air battle occurs near the island and the body of a fighter pilot drifts down in a parachute. Twin boys Sam and Eric mistake the corpse for the beast. When Ralph and Jack investigate with another boy, Roger, they flee in terror, believing the imaginary beast is real. Jack...
As I start this essay, on 1/26/06, I have just witnessed one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever seen on television: Oprah Winfrey in sermonizing overdrive. This woman is the worst piece of bilge in the history of American television because she’s responsible for more of the dum...
entry (on August 9, 2011) was 9028 words long.* Of this longer-than-usual entry, 3220 words were devoted to “Controversies and criticism” in which a series of incidents involving Coulter and quotes from her are cited with accompanying condemnations, primarily from her opponents on the Left...
using the pen name "Saki" for the first time. The series lampooned political figures of the day (Alice in Downing Streetbegins with the memorable line, "'Have you ever seen an Ineptitude?'" – referring to a zoomorphised Arthur Balfour[4]), and was published in the LiberalWestminster Gaz...
moving among sights and smells that made me deliver in the vernacular sentences whose meaning I knew not. Other Indian-born boys have told me how the same thing happened to them."[25] This arrival changed Kipling, as he explains: "There were yet three or four days' rail to Lahore, wher...
Henry Miller references the book on the first page of his novelSexus(ofThe Rosy Crucifixionseries).[107] Amos Oz writes in his autobiographyA Tale of Love and DarknessthatWinesburg, Ohiohad a powerful influence on his writing, showing him that literature must not necessarily always be about ...