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In this jackfruit republic that served as a franchise of the United States, Americans expected me to be like those millions who spoke no English, pidgin English, or accented English. I resented their expectation. That was why I was always eager to demonstrate, in both spoken and written word, my mastery of their language. My vocabulary was broader,
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Beneath these giants, way down in the understory, her own body seems freakishly small, like one of those acorn-people she made in childhood.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Then, Max wrote, S. S. Van Dine called “to give notice” that he would bring in his newest manuscript—
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He’s Sih Hsuin Ma now—his old self turned inside out, like a jaunty, reversible jacket.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Shifts in the narrative would occur—the past never a fixed and dormant landscape but one that is re-seen.
Ocean Vuong • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
What is a country but a life sentence?
Ocean Vuong • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Together, they form one great symbiotic association, like the ones they study.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Sappho,