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Leigh’s elm, Jean’s ash, Emmett’s ironwood, and Adam’s maple, each made from identical green puffballs.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
immram tradition.1 In this mediaeval Irish genre of Otherworld voyage literature, a protagonist sets off on a voyage by sea, often following a transgression, moving from island to island in search of redemption.2
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She reads Thoreau over wood fires at night.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
The voices were high and angelic, singing about being in the bright valleys of the Lord. Ciaran tapped his fingers absently on the dashboard. It looked like the music had entered him and was bouncing around. He said something about his brother and him not having a dancing bone in their bodies, but their mother had played the piano when they were yo
... See moreColum McCann • Let the Great World Spin
The central pillar which has sustained the storied house of our imagination ever since has been the idea of the civilized knight amid the savage enchantments; the adventures of a man still sane in a world gone mad.