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...materials in the archives appear to have been written and typed by the members of The Court themselves, not their secretaries. “The handwritten notes look as if someone took scraps of paper, held it on their lap and wrote with a blunt pencil,” Goldstein said. “The letters looked like the Dean himself was typing, not a professional secretary. It was like a person typing who wasn’t used to typing...
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...mind, Libby has been going for the presidency ever since, at two-and-a-half, he sat on his grandmother’s lap and asked her what war was. It’s the first moment he can remember clearly. In answer to his question, Libby’s grandmother told him the story of his great-grandfather’s service in the French army, a service that nearly landed him in a concentration camp. “Ever since, it’s been a mission of mine not to have countries broken apart...
...table. Consider the first 10 minutes of Lau Hung-chuen?s sublimely titled ?Devil Fetus,? for me one of the exhumed treasures of ITMFG. At an auction, a woman buys a jade vase without realizing there?s a devil inside. That night, her sister holds the vase in her lap and gets, as wonderfully euphemistic Hong Kong subtitles usually put it, ?comfortable.? The devil assumes a sort of protoplasmic human form, enters the sister and impregnates her. Her husband walks in and, discovering her in flagrante devilfeto, grabs the vase and smashes it. His face goes all scarred and pustular...
Gomes, who is Plummer professor of Christian morals and Pusey minister in the Memorial Church, ushers me into his cozy Mem Church office and waves me toward the plush couch. He settles himself in the chair opposite me, calmly folds his hands in his lap and fixes me with a pensive gaze. I try my best to look studious and upstanding as I explain to him my situation. I’m writing a personal narrative, I begin. Pause. Well, I don’t really understand religion, I admit. Sometimes, I even have a hard time relating to very...