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the true and fundamental color of nature

I was then all right for twenty minutes, until the mania came back reformulated as the proposition that if I actually got rid of my sunglasses, and only if, I would be able to see the true and fundamental color of nature. I was to understand that what we perceive as beautiful individual colors are …

—p.137 Mating MY EXPEDITION (129) by Norman Rush
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that’s up to them project/secret-life

That’s up to them, I thought, which reminds me that I have to stop using phrases meaningless except between me and Denoon. See what happen! is another phrase I have to stop using for the same reason. That’s up to them arises from an older Jewish couple who had come to Botswana with the Peace Corps …

—p.117 THE SOLAR DEMOCRAT (57) by Norman Rush
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intellectual love

Intellectual love is a particular hazard for educated women, I think. Certain conditions have to obtain. You meet someone — I would specify of the opposite sex, but this is obviously me being hyperparochial — who strikes you as having persuasive and wellfounded answers to questions on the order of …

—p.107 THE SOLAR DEMOCRAT (57) by Norman Rush
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intellectual love

Intellectual love is a particular hazard for educated women, I think. Certain conditions have to obtain. You meet someone — I would specify of the opposite sex, but this is obviously me being hyperparochial — who strikes you as having persuasive and wellfounded answers to questions on the order of …

—p.107 THE SOLAR DEMOCRAT (57) by Norman Rush
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failing to get around to paying his taxes for years

Next he irritated me almost to the breaking point, which I deserve some kind of an award for concealing. Terrible as America was becoming, he wasn’t responsible. Oh la, I thought. And why wasn’t he responsible? One, he always voted, by absentee ballot if necessary, and always for the minority party…

—p.106 THE SOLAR DEMOCRAT (57) by Norman Rush