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some men define themselves by women

It is almost seven. Should Alex walk in the door as a type, a genre? Perhaps that effort is a mistake. What is wanted is history, the man in the raincoat, wearing the loops of his ideas, the buttons of his period. Some men define themselves by women although they appear to believe it is quite the o…

—p.49 Sleepless Nights Sleepless Nights (1) by Elizabeth Hardwick
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exegesis

How pleasant the rooms were, how comforting the distresses of New Yorkers, their insomnias filled with words, their patient exegesis of surprising terrors.

—p.42 Sleepless Nights (1) by Elizabeth Hardwick
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exegesis

How pleasant the rooms were, how comforting the distresses of New Yorkers, their insomnias filled with words, their patient exegesis of surprising terrors.

—p.42 Sleepless Nights (1) by Elizabeth Hardwick
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at the party everyone was intelligent and agreeable

This is what I heard in the evening. At the party everyone was intelligent and agreeable, but not particularly good-looking. No person of talent had brought along a new, beautiful, young girl, who being new and not knowing all the names would seem rude and superior, thus sending arrows of pain into…

—p.41 Sleepless Nights (1) by Elizabeth Hardwick
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they were lifted by insolence above their forgotten loans

These people, and some had been there for years, lived as if in a house recently burglarized, wires cut, their world vandalized, their memory a lament of peculiar losses. It was as if they had robbed themselves, and that gave a certain cheerfulness. Do not imagine that in the reduction to the rente…

—p.26 Sleepless Nights (1) by Elizabeth Hardwick