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antic

a man possessed by the antic spirit of drumming

—p.2 The Fun Stuff: Homage to Keith Moon (1) by James Wood
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having a Paraguayan passport

[...] it's the difference between having an American passport and deciding you're going to live in Paraguay versus having a Paraguayan passport. If you're a high literary writer you can live there your whole life, but you have that fucking passport. Even if you never go home, the possibility of it …

—p.138 Sonora Review Issue 55 Of Power and the American Condition: An Interview with Junot Diaz (131) by Junot Díaz
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wrestling with this incredible power project/dystopian-fiction

[...] how much literary fiction deals with the absolute power that the rest of the planet lives under? It's almost none. But if you read any science fiction or fantasy, there's always a dark lord or a dark side or an emperor. It's always wrestling with this incredible power. The anxieties of the …

—p.137 Of Power and the American Condition: An Interview with Junot Diaz (131) by Junot Díaz
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