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...titles of every other book Hume wrote, don't just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like Natalie Wood. If your can't come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clink of pseudo-facts...
...that "people want to read something they view as significant or trendy or that people are talking about." Could books be the latest life-style accessories? The equivalent of cigars for the brain? Several liquor firms have taken to sponsoring literary evenings at which prospective single-malt-Scotch buyers clink glasses with budding novelists. The association of booze and books is long, close and infamously troubled (would a stumbling William Faulkner or Dylan Thomas be welcome at such a gathering?), but the distilleries don't seem fazed. Nor do the clubbable, complicit writers...
...stopped in the 1940s when Luciano entered a room and an austere silence of mixed awe and respect descended, it is a cardinal sin to whisper and interrupt the don during The Godfather. As one of Luciano's buddies would recall in a recent A&E docu-drama, "The clink of a glass, the drop of a hat--you'd hear the littlest sound, everyone was so quiet when Lucky arrived at the club." These were high profile men: men who drank their whisky straight, men who traveled in a cloud of cash and Cuban cigars, leaving nothing in their...
...titles of every other book Hume wrote; don't just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like Natalie Wood. If you can't come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clink of pseudo-facts...
...champagne flutes clink now, at this moment of intense insobriety, we may not see the choices which lie ahead of us, choices which we might have already made. These choices are not the ones of professional occupation--law school, medical school, business school, dentistry. No, these choices are more important, more telling. I mean the choices regarding the way we shall live our lives, the question which concerned, among others, Socrates the Impudent: How best shall we live...