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Gary Beck The Odyssey and accompany Odysseus on his adventures as he tries to return to Ithaca,
Gary Beck Thucydides the Peloponnesian War
The Iceman Cometh
French Symbolist poets
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Gary Beck Raskolnikov and Sonya. They exemplify redemption through suffering, an ideological theme that despite evil and sin, there is still hope for change to something better, even if it's the gulag.
Gary Beck It wasn't from the Oracle of Delphi, and it didn't come to me in a dream. I'm at the stage in my writing process when a good idea comes out of the stored material that I've collected in my unconscious warehouse of experience.
Gary Beck I think about Tolstoy, who said: I write when the spirit moves me, and the spirit moves me every day.
Gary Beck Three novels, a poetry collection and an ever expanding theater essay and memoir.
Gary Beck Keep writing, and don't take advice from anyone you don't know.
Gary Beck You can only blame yourself if the work is no good.
Gary Beck I go around the block.

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