Word: darknesse
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WILLIAM GOLDING HATES children. They are ignorant monsters who savagely destroy each other, worse than adults, who at least recognize the evil inherent in man. When Golding's children lose their innocence, they pass out of one destitute world of sin and darkness and enter another.
On a clear, still night last December, Israeli scientists and energy officials gathered in the tiny desert community of Ein Bokek near the southern shore of the Dead Sea. At the command of the Energy Minister, a switch was thrown and a battery of floodlights suddenly blazed in the darkness...
Writing while bringing up children, Le Guin sold her first short story when she was 30 and then began building a stellar reputation among sci-fi fans; her 1969 novel The Left Hand of Darkness won both a Hugo and a Nebula, science fiction's most prestigious awards. The...
Frustration. It doesn't seem fair somehow, that fate should have clutched victory away from the trembling hands of the youthful icemen and leave them stunned, empty-handed and incredulous once again. There was no sleep last night for the Crimson hockey team. They lay awake, eyes penetrating the darkness...
Burroughs disassociates himself from the Beat movement, and writers like Kerouac. "I don't think I have very much in common with the other Beat writers from a literary point of view. You couldn't find two writers more different in their approach and style than myself and Kerouac." He...