Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wonder what I can learn from having lost someone so precious in my life. By choosing to come to Harvard, I have followed in my brother's footsteps, in a way, and I believe I am seeing and experiencing what he saw 13 years ago. I see a place that is too often built on cynicism, criticism and sarcasm, and a place that pretends to have more and more information, yet that is increasingly void of meaning...
References hinting slightly at the protagonist's guilt emerge again throughout the novel. At one point K. refuses to confess, for example, causing the reader to wonder what he could possibly have to confess. At another time, when K. gets lost while searching for the court, he observes that he should be able to find the court automatically since he has been told that the court is attracted by guilt...
...power and no monetary reward. They do their job with dedication, courage and commitment. Yes, maybe they receive some kind of macho adrenaline rush which makes it worthwhile, but the bottom line is they are everyday heroes. People stop and stare because somewhere deep down all of us wonder whether, if we were placed in the same situation, we could act with the same bravery and selflessness...
...passing. Betrayals and reconciliations, obsessions and evasions coincide in the same words and while a song may express the despair of heartache, the music exposes the allure of it as well. The grief is unbearable but its melody is so sweet, so fragile, Bacharach and Costello seem to wonder who can live without it. Like love itself, of course, no one can. As in these desolate and beautiful stories, Painted from Memory suggests, we too may linger on the comforting ache of love remembered, complicit in our own exquisite misery. Misery, after all, is just another kind of tenderness, only...
...insist simplistically that "lawyers and loan sharks/are laying America to waste." There are small pleasures to be had on Taming the Tiger, like Mitchell's confidently unconventional melodies, her dark and smoke-ravaged voice and the occasional appearances of deft saxophonist Wayne Shorter. Still, one can't help but wonder what happened to Joni Mitchell since we lost her 20 years ago. On Taming the Tiger, at least, she is nowhere to be found...