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ECW Press • A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
In an absurd moment of panic he wondered if he himself was the victim.
J. G. Ballard • High-Rise: A Novel
Otis
Thomas Pynchon • Bleeding Edge
Arafat knew he could get Israel to overreact, first by electing a more hawkish prime minister to replace the dovish Ehud Barak,
Alan Dershowitz • The Case for Israel
window. The man’s face falls into and out of amused expressions as he
David Foster Wallace • Infinite Jest
thought this real me was in there, in charge, hidden from them but directing from the undergrowth.
Anna Burns • Milkman
At the earliest stages of development there was, as it were, a rudimentary socialism, a form of life, Winnicott suggests, based on collaborative exchange (or perhaps more exactly, to use Wordsworth’s phrase, ‘mutual domination’).
Adam Phillips • Winnicott
In place of explanation, memory.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
He can find no way to say what so badly needs saying. Our home has been broken into. Our lives are being endangered. The law allows for all necessary force against unlawful and imminent harm.