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(noun) mother-of-pearl
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The worst fate, they utterly agreed, would be to become lik…
Great wealth was a frightful handicap; it insulated you fro…
Last night, he had explained technocracy to Dottie, to show…
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[...] "You don't mind if I take this?" she queried, showing…
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General Macbeth
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A Bolt from the Blue
on Nabokov's Pale Fire. this made me realize that the narrator may indeed be the escaped lunatic lol
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A Bolt from the Blue
on Nabokov's Pale Fire. this made me realize that the narrator may indeed be the escaped lunatic lol
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Burroughs’ Naked Lunch
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The Hue and Cry
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On Madame Bovary
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Crushing a Butterfly
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Everybody’s Childhood
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More on Compton-Burnett
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The Writing on the Wall
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Hanging by a Thread
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