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a field of academic study with only one specialist

Of course all of the above is really about the phonecall and the What is to be done? question. Somewhere in everything I remember lies the answer to how I should decide. At this point, oddly enough, I have the money to do whatever I decide is required. Of course a month has passed since the call, a…

—p.468 Mating ABOUT THE FOREGOING (465) by Norman Rush
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the ingenues in the Coke ads of the nineteen forties

I recognized what Bronwen was immediately. She was my satanic miracle. I knew it. Her image seemed to leave a print on my sight when I looked away from her. She was reading Nelson’s book with ferocious concentration. I could tell she was believing it.

Ripeness is all, was Bronwen. People had sai…

—p.462 STRIFE (355) by Norman Rush
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your husband is no longer sexually compelled by you

I knew he wasn’t normal in at least one respect because of an unconscionable thing I’d done the night before. I’d gotten into bed naked and we’d begun embracing, all in silence — which was atypical. And I’d discovered what I wanted to discover, that the same things made him sincere as always. But t…

—p.459 STRIFE (355) by Norman Rush
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that something momentous happened to you

Just tell me this, I said. Just tell me if this is right, that something momentous happened to you on the way to Tikwe, you think.

Something momentous. I think so.

It was up to him to elaborate. I could have made him do it, led him to do it. But the sense that I represented the forces of inte…

—p.435 STRIFE (355) by Norman Rush
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that’s the only language you understand inspo/funny

[...] And not to venture too far into the underside of our household humor, he also laughed inordinately when I was getting into bed and slightly farted and he said Is that the way you greet me? I replied quick as a flash That’s the only language you understand. Neither of us could figure out why w…

—p.387 STRIFE (355) by Norman Rush