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The Loneliness of the Military HistorianConfess: it's my professionthat alarms you.This is why few people ask me to dinner,though Lord knows I don't g...more

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Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But laxity in one ...more

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How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, h...more

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...He was wrong about the sadness though: far better to have it when you're young. A sad pretty girl inspires the urge to console, unlike a sad old cr...more

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There was old sex in the room and loneliness, and expectation, of something without a shape or name. I remember that yearning, and was never the same ...more