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David Mamet Memo to "The Unit" Writing Staff
David Mamet's memo provides guidelines for the writing staff of the TV show "The Unit" regarding the importance of drama, storytelling, and creating engaging scenes that advance the plot.
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Literary Hub • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
His misshapen body, that gray mop of abundant hair, the yellow nails of his pudgy fingers, the bags under his lusterless eyes, were only intelligible if regarded as the waste products eliminated from his intrinsic self by the same forces of perfection which purified and chiseled his verse. He was his own cancellation.
Vladimir Nabokov • Pale Fire (Vintage International)
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Margaret Atwood • The Robber Bride
“Ada, our ardors and arbors”—a dactylic trimeter that was to remain Van Veen’s only contribution to Anglo-American poetry—sang through his brain.
Vladimir Nabokov • Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (Vintage International)
spates
Margaret Atwood • The Robber Bride
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