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Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
We knew all there was to know about distant galaxies but nothing about that: the notion that history was more oracle than science must have had something to do with this. Excerpt From Koestler, Arthur. “Darkness at Noon.” Scribner, 2019-09-17. Apple Books.This material may be protected by copyright.
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Ogden Nash
The one-L lama, he’s a priest. The two-L llama, he’s a beast.And I will bet a silk pajama: there isn’t any three-L lllama! The author’s attention has been called to a type of conflagration known as a three-alarmer. Pooh.
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The Luzhin Defense by Vladimir Nabokov
NOTES FROM The Luzhin Defense Vladimir Nabokov Her mother, liberally powdered and wearing a very low dress that showed, as in the old days, the tight groove between her raised, eighteenth-century breasts, was bearing up heroically and even used the familiar second person singular (“ty”) to her son-in-law, so that at first Luzhin did not…
