Word: delusionals
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BY THIS TIME I was spending most of my time with the girl who lived beneath me. She was small and squat with frizzy hair and with a grim tightness at the corners of her mouth, like the look of middle age. She was Jewish, from New York City--compulsive...
Oh Woe, Alas? Not exactly, for wisdom comes from loss. Pretty women, as everyone knows, are given special treatment. But beauty is a costly possession, and women pay for it by pretending that the skin is the self, and carrying on a discreet, lifelong flirtation with the world that encourages...
Howls of pain and madness echo through these pages: Heracles tearing at the poisoned shirt on his back as a dead monster's venom scalds his veins; Ajax on the plains of Troy-big, dumb Ajax, crazed by the goddess Athene-slashing bulls' throats and breaking the backs...
FOR the past five years, with America's energies and fears focused on Viet Nam, Washington pretty much took Europe for granted. Now the Administration is noticing the Continent in a way that suggests that Europeans may soon want a new era of benign neglect. "Maybe we've...
Jack undergoes a complex metamorphosis. He adopts the appearances of normality, a hair cut and the most elegant Victorian dress. (We're in the 1950s, so if this seems a little odd, we can chalk it up to that tolerated margin.) Actually, Jack has come to believe that the year...