A big, fierce, weeping, hungry man, not a strong one.
— Thomas Carlyle,
in a letter to Emerson
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Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the wat...
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from Book One Custom of the Country 1 "Undine Spragg!-how can you?" her mother wailed, raising a prematurely wrinkled hand heavy ...
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from All Down Darkness Wild After some quiet introductions, he nodded towards a thicket of trees and started walking, keeping his distance...
