Word: dwellings
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Aciman’s effort in “Eight White Nights” to imitate Proust and constantly dwell within thoughts, metaphors, code-phrases, and imagined scenes of passion is misguided. The prose is feverish and obsessive; though his writing occasionally reaches lyrical heights, the banality of his subjects often overpowers. It particularly raises the question of whether the flowery, (pand)angsty voice of the narrator isn’t just Aciman’s projection of how he believes women want men to think, feel and obsess over them, since there doesn’t appear...
...This translates to, “Haiti says: ‘I’ve taken bad hits! But, don’t be afraid, I will always be here.’” This saying reminds Haitians, the Haitian diaspora, and friends of Haiti not to dwell in sadness but to spring forward with the unbreakable spirit and energy of Haiti’s people...