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Your case is indeed a serious one. No, I am afraid I cannot justify your shopping without taking The Book with you. As I have tried to stress to all my reading Public, the owner of A Confederate General from Big Sur does not possess a material "book." He has, rather, a warm piece of earth, complete with weeds, dirt, three or four gross-thingies, and all the little strings than hang down from pieces of earth. A very drunk young Pakistani once told...

Author: By Steven W. Stahler, | Title: An Attempt to Clarify What Exactly It Is That Richard Brautigan Says About Trout | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

...were afraid to possess your soul, so you went by the wayside and acquired property...

Author: By Adele M. Rosen, | Title: A Trip Around With Kenneth Patchen's Mind | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

...since nothing that is not possessed can be lost, all that we do not possess is worth possessing as long as we do not possess it? Whereas only some of the things we possess are worth possessing? The conversation goes dead. If she offers you a pomegranite on a silvery tray, will you take...

Author: By Adele M. Rosen, | Title: A Trip Around With Kenneth Patchen's Mind | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

...this tense milieu that the Arabs' "men of sacrifice" operate, in a defiant effort to exploit its instabilities to their own ends. The fedayeen, who owe no fealty to any government, are responsible only to themselves, and view any settlement as a betrayal and a disaster. They possess the power to sting Israel into repeated reprisals, and perhaps to whip Arab popular opinion to such a pitch that not even Nasser with all his prestige might dare a settlement with Israel. In Jordan, their primary staging area, they constitute virtually a state-within-a-state and could probably topple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GUERRILLA THREAT IN THE MIDDLE EAST | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...young Eugene's mother hangup. Beatrice Ashe, whom O'Neill wanted to marry in his mid-20s, complained: "I felt that he wanted someone to baby him . . . He was always talking about having his head on my breast . . . But I also felt he would have wanted to possess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Will to be Great | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

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