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He did not look up because he knew how senseless the landscape would appear. It takes energy to invest life with meaning, and at present this energy w...more

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When I was young” … “Before I was twenty, I mean, I used to think that life was a thing that kept gaining impetus, it would get richer and deeper each...more

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the sky here's very strange. I often have the sensation when I look at it that it's a solid thing up there, protecting us from what's behind . . . [fr...more

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The insistent drums were an unwelcome reminder of the existence of another world, wholly autonomous, with its own necessities and patterns. The messag...more

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Yes, but perhaps he did have something to do with it.” (In such arguments Stenham often found himself unexpectedly extolling the bourgeois virtues.) “...more

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At some point in the night she had a dream. Or it was possible that she was partially awake, and was only remembering a dream? She was alone among the...more