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Michael Michael said: " Winner of the 2014 University of Iowa Press John Simmons Short Fiction Prize, this "novel-in-stories" reads like a creative writing exercise that should have been completed, critiqued, and filed rather than being published. The characters, while not ...more "

 
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And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
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“And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.”
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“To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.”
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