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the novel ideally is not reducible to the political
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jalopies »
an old car in a dilapidated condition
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salvo »
a sudden, vigorous, or aggressive act or series o…
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frisson »
(noun) a brief moment of emotional excitement; sh…
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fronds »
the leaf or leaflike part of a palm, fern, or sim…
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torpor »
(noun) a state of mental and motor inactivity wit…
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My uncle Bobby, who hauled dirt for a living, spent his fin…
“I never met a girl who rides Italian motorcycles,” he said…
He wrote a very fine poem in that swell. But with no pencil…
I had moved to New York from Reno just over a year before m…
The phone was ringing. Now there was a huge mangled stain o…