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...searching tale of a pair of humans who seek answers to the same questions, both involved in the production of a play about the life of Thomas Edison. Flitting between the shadows of the play and the cobwebs of reality, the short story leaves it to the reader to grasp the threads of fiction after his or her own fashion. One can barely tell when the tale spins from the story of the scientist to that of the assistant director and his cast A febrile reiteration of the word "soul mate" in myriad forms ("sole mate") reminds...
...your beginning, curled up like a comma in the hospital crib, and I was certain that paradise, never lost, did not have to be regained. Come Saturday, I will feel the same way, though the whole idea of your wedding is still a little hard for me to grasp. That scene in Father of the Bride when Steve Martin sees his grownup daughter as a five-year-old explaining that she is engaged to be married is sort of what I'm going through...
...without thinking of the past or the future." Interestingly, he also stood against the Expressionist belief that the work of art gains value by disclosing the truth, the inner being, of its author. "How can anyone enter into my dreams, my instincts, my desires, my thoughts...and above all grasp from them what I have been about--perhaps against my own will?" he exclaimed...
Gonzalez said he was "very happy" to help Martinez on his thesis and was pleased and surprised by the senior's grasp of his subject manner...
...enormous grasp of the needs of children and the health-care system," he says. "Any medical school class would be interested in not only the content of her speech but also the style of thinking that she provides by way of her perspective...