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One of the students held up his hand; and though he could see quite well why you couldn’t have lower-caste people wasting the Community’s time over books, and that there was always the risk of their reading something which might undesirably
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“The tense of the body is the present indicative; but the soul has a memory and a present and a future. I have conceived some extremely recondite pains for Mr. Trellis. I will pierce him with a pluperfect.”
― At Swim-Two-Birds
― At Swim-Two-Birds
“Trellis wants his salutary book to be read by all. He realizes that purely a moralizing tract would not reach the public. Therefore he is putting plenty of smut into his book.”
― At Swim-Two-Birds
― At Swim-Two-Birds
“Put a thief among honest men and they will eventually relieve him of his watch.”
― At Swim-Two-Birds
― At Swim-Two-Birds
“For all things change, making way for each other”
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― At Swim-Two-Birds
The fiction of Rafael Alvarez
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Group dedicated to the short stories and other writings of Baltimore-born author Rafael Alvarez [05.24.58] known collectively as the "The Holy Land" t ...more
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