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The terror and consternation of the Presidential couple may be imagined by anyone who has ever loved a child, and suffered that dread intimation common to all parents, that Fate may not hold that life in as high a regard, and may dispose of it at will.
George Saunders • Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel
There it is: the ultimate commandment. Take care of your own. Protect your genes. Lay down your life for one child, two siblings, or eight first cousins. How many friends would that translate to? How many strangers who might still be out there, laying down their lives for other species? How many trees? He can’t begin to tell his wife the worst of i
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subtle stylist and a self-willed Everyman
Deborah Treisman • The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami
atavistic
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
apotheosis
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle)
histrionics,