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What do you think about America?""Everyone always smiles so big! Well—most people. Maybe not so much you. I think it looks stupid.

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What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star?That, by the way, is a phrase of Julian's. I remember it from a lectur...more

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They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and findi...more

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Do you remember what we were speaking of earlier, of how bloody, terrible things are sometimes the most beautiful?” he said. “It’s a very Greek idea, ...more

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Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?