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Lessons from C.S. Lewis
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James Baldwin’s January 1985 Playboy essay, “Freaks and the American Ideal of Manhood” describes how the masculine ideal demands that men prove their manhood by dominating others.
Back in Brooklyn, a poet-nurse to the Union dying writes: A leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. Jørgen never reads these words.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
he should have that cold but somehow enthusiastic
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
Even in a body’s most private moments, something else joins in. Someone spoke to her when she was dead.