Sublime

Abe Fields ne se croyait pour les bêtes aucune tendresse spéciale et se sentit donc un peu choqué en entendant cette fille parler du sort de la faune africaine comme de la seule chose qui comptât. Cela blessait son sens moral : dans un monde où soixante pour cent de l'humanité crevaient de faim, au point que le mot « liberté » ne pouvait avoir pour

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it was only Melissa who ate the granola and he was thinking very hard about which granola to buy, the orange and cranberry or the coconut and tropical fruit.

A ‘great’ butler can only be, surely, one who can point to his years of service and say that he has applied his talents to serving a great gentleman – and through the latter, to serving humanity.

During the interviews she’d asked a lot of questions about height and eye colour and other things that were none of her business. “That’s the concern of the First Mothers,” Sharmayne had finally told her. “We do the genetic planning around here. He’s a good clean boy, that’s all you need to know. Maybe a little temperamental, but just go easy with

The story that isn’t Mark Nechtr’s by Mark Nechtr concerns a young competitive archer, named Dave, and his live-in lover, named L____. Dave, who is not nearly so healthy as Mark, believes that the only things that give his life meaning and direction are his competitive archery and his lover, L____, who is a great deal more attractive and sympatheti

“They are slaves.” No, they are human beings. “They are slaves.” No, they are housemates. “They are slaves.” No, they are lowborn friends.

Aphra Behn’s 1678 novel Oroonoko.