Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout their journey Eva has felt the pain of her Nazi torment, and she repeatedly asks David to take her to the safety of her own home. When Eva discovers David has sold the house without asking her permission, the two have a bitter argument. But, as is usual in love stories, the tension eases and the two become reconciled eventually...
...breathing heavily now, and the sweat has soaked your jersey. Your legs feel a rush of blood and satisfying pain as you turn for the return race. You race, switch oarsmen, turn around--ten races in all, and you head home, panting, tired and exhilirated. A hot shower is all you ask, and you dress slowly to accommodate sore muscles and tired eyes...
...until the end of the book do we realize the intricacy of Kohout's style. By leading us with anecdotes and facts about methods of inflicting pain, and by tempting us with the logic of killing, Kohout has made us his characters' accomplices. We find ourselves in the same position as Lizinka's father, who, originally opposed to her planned course of study, at the end accepts Wolf as a future son-in-law. By our interest in Kohout's society and our inactivity in our own, we remove ourselves from our humanity...
...sorry, but Rick Burleson blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Blah blah money, blah blah six years, blah blah pain in the neck. Blah blah Angels too. Blah...
...realized that they had seen the most powerful force in the universe demonstrated before their unbelieving eyes. As Robert Serber, a scientist who worked on the project, said. "It was some kind of beauty." But as the lesson of Hiroshima--where, as brother Frank Oppenheimer recalled with obvious pain, they saw all the "flattened bodies"--made clear to Robert Oppenheimer, it was a beauty that should never be seen again...