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Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. Th...

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Black ElkBlack Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

I'd decided the campus was just a place to hide. There were some campus freaks who stayed on forever...

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By shutting out the real world we can live peacefully in ours. We know that a world without pain is ...

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Dear Producers, Something is radiating deep within me and it must be transmitted or I will implode a...

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Dave EggersA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

‎"It always seemed somehow less real here... a really detailed dream, but sort of washed out, like a...

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The real world—where I probably could never be happy, and never get anywhere.

You can't just pick up a gun and become a gunfighter, or go off and explore for a new world, or pull...

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What is without dispute...is that the readers need [the BookWorld] just as much as we need them—to b...

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Jasper FfordeOne of Our Thursdays Is Missing

Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those o...

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Marianne WilliamsonTears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened...

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Umberto EcoSix Walks in the Fictional Woods

It seems comfortable to sink down on a sofa in a corner, to look, to listen. Then it happens that tw...

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