The Goldfinch
That night, at Boris’ — lying drunk on my half of the batik-draped mattress — I tried to...
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Category: Truth & Lies
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
He felt they were laughing at him. Confusion caused him to forget what he had meant to say. The...
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Have You Got a Biro I Can Borrow?
Have you got a biro I can borrow? I’d like to write your name On the palm of my hand, on the walls...
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The Golden Eternity
I have lots of things to share now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was...
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Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far...
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No One Belongs Here More Than You
The Shared Patio Vincent was on the shared patio. I’ll tell you about this patio. It is...
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Break It Down
And once she lay over against me late in the night and she started talking, her breath in my ear,...
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A House For Mr Biswas
Every night he bolted himself in his room. As soon as he was still he felt the stillness around...
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The Zoo In Basel
Until the nineteenth century it was generally, if not universally, believed that the world was a...
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London Under
The subterranean world can be a place of fantasy, therefore, where the ordinary conditions of...
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In Patagonia
I left the Rio Negro and went on south to Port Madryn. A hundred and fifty-three Welsh colonists...
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