Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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She described herself as an adolescent, dark skinned and sensuous, alone on a street corner listening to music. Overcome by frustration and melancholy, she muttered, "Books, books. Is there no end to it? Nothing to feed my own empty self but musty books?" Again the contradiction, again the complexity.
"It was funny about Cambridge it was the one place that there was nothing there nothing that I recognized nothing. Considering that I had spent four years there it was sufficiently astonishing that there was nothing that I remembered at all.... I lost Cambridge then and there. That is funny...
Currently in the depths of a three game losing streak, the varsity would like nothing better than to sharpen up for this weekend's important contests with Princeton and Penn by winning.
He has restored at least a dozen previously deleted episodes, but most of them make the modern reader wonder why the old man should have been prevented for so long from rattling his dead bones. Today Mark Twain's often irreverent notions about God, Bible and his fellow men...
This is not the tone in which an author normally begs his publisher for a handout. But Daniel Skipton is no normal author. Pamela Hansford Johnson has modeled him on that unholy terror Frederick William Rolfe, alias "Baron Corvo," who was recently reintroduced to U.S. readers in his previously unpublished...