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Seek: Reports from the Edges of America and Beyond

by Denis Johnson

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An Ordinary Life: Poems by B.H. Fairchild

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THE WATER BALLET From a balcony where Brahms spills from a speaker, I watch the midday sun sprawl across this blue pool, this chlorinated heaven whose clouds hang deep below and darken near the end where the drain waits for winter. Around ...more

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“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: change, human

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“The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: frankinstein

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“Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: desolation, inspirational, monster

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“I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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