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Papa was to have gone that noon, during his lunch hour, to the office of the Home Owners’ Loan. If he had not succeeded in getting another extension, they would be leaving this house in which they had lived for more than fourteen years. There was little hope. The Home Owners’ Loan was hard. They sat, making their plans. “We’ll be moving into a nice
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Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
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anthropomorphically.”
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It never did to compare your wife and your mistress, because your wife always won, the way the classics were better, the way the jazz standards had nuances no other songs had. Still, those pop ditties of the moment could sometimes get stuck in Hood’s head. Sometimes they articulated a whole season of trouble at the office. Sometimes they articulate
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Their romance with the Yankee dollar,
Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
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Alice Walker • The Color Purple
John Updike’s The Centaur,