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...tradition of spurned loves, a visitor to the Quincy Qube bemoaned his fate. "Oh my dearest Betsy--if only you weren't seeing that dreadful Law School student, we could have the greatest life together. Oh woe is me, my lovely...
...this is only the start. After an idyllic interlude, the trio are rescued by a British merchant vessel and taken back to England. Before he can touch soil, Susan's last great love, Crusoe, dies of woe, sighing for his island. In London, Susan finds her way to a tale spinner significantly surnamed Foe -- Defoe's real name -- and persuades him to tell her story. But Foe keeps emphasizing the wrong themes. Susan rebels and then suffers remorse. "I am growing to understand why you wanted Crusoe to have a musket and be besieged by cannibals," she writes...
Bette tries to be both tickled and modest about her mainstream celebrity. "I really don't even feel I deserve all this," she says earnestly. "I have been a very lucky girl. Now I'm working and doing good work and loving it. I'm not going to say 'Woe is me.' I can't. I'm too happy that anybody noticed I had any talent at all. But I would make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something." Instead of Shakespeare, though, she is preparing yet another comedy, Big Business, in which...
...this was only his first time. I tried to console him, but ended up joining him. It's a puzzle, isn't it? I don't know why grown men care so deeply about something that neither kills, nor starves, nor maims, nor even scratches in our world of woe. I don't know why we care so much, but I'm mighty glad that...
...elusive. Sciences Editor Leon Jaroff, who edited the story, describes the virus as a bizarre creature that "isn't really life as we know it, but isn't inanimate either. It comes in an endless number of sizes and shapes, each seemingly designed to inflict a different kind of woe on humans, animals or plants." Wallis readily agrees. "Though we've all had the flu, few of us are familiar with the tiny creature that causes...