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Protective colouration, she called her outfits. She looked like a dependable mother from a respectable neighbourhood such as ours. As she worked at the kitchen counter, she might have been demonstrating a jiffy recipe in Good Housekeeping magazine—something with tomato aspic, this being the mid-1950s, when tomato aspic was a food group.
Margaret Atwood • Old Babes in the Wood
art exaggerates life,
Mukesh Manjunath • The Age Of Heroes: The Incredible World of Telugu Cinema
This eternal teatime?
Harold Pinter • The Short Plays of Harold Pinter
the case of Bill Watterson, the creator of the beloved comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, who had made a pact to produce daily strips that resonated deeply with readers. He enjoyed the work and had no plans of stopping. However, as the popularity of his work grew, he faced mounting pressure to capitalize on its success by expanding into other forms of
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derelict
Anna Kavan • Ice (Penguin Modern Classics)
You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.