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The painted aircraft took on sunlight and pulse. Sweeps of color, bands and spatters, airy washes, the force of saturated light—the whole thing oddly ...more

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Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do.

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It is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore human experience...For that reason, reading a novel is potentially a significa...more

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As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting pressure. There was no way out once he was in, no genui...more

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Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death. Maybe these things are justifica...more