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A sword of pure moonlight flashed in the angel’s hand. The two fought viciously as another dark shape closed in. The girl fell. Closer to the ground now. Close to the priest. He ran under her. Her form grew bigger swiftly, coming at him.
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“The last novel Brandeggen wrote—The Red Handler Lands in Trouble with the Authorities—is therefore also better understood in relation to this unused origin story, since the freedom the Red Handler has been given eventually comes back to bite him and is revoked due to either unsubmitted paperwork or the incident detailed in The Red Handler and the Out-of-Control-Urine.”
― Red Handler
― Red Handler
“In memory, we find the most complete release from the narrowness of presented time and place.... The picture is one of human beings confronted by a world in which they can be masters only as they ... discover ways of escape from the complete sway of immediate circumstances. —F. C. Bartlett, Remembering”
― The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
― The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
“My own plain hand, crosshatched and whorled in a mesh of expressive lines, a life terrain, might itself be the object of a person’s study and wonder for years. A cosmology against the void.”
― White Noise
― White Noise
“Things git easy when it’s nothing else to do. I known that when I weren’t no biggern you are, boy.”
― A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
― A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
“A sword of pure moonlight flashed in the angel’s hand. The two fought viciously as another dark shape closed in. The girl fell. Closer to the ground now. Close to the priest. He ran under her. Her form grew bigger swiftly, coming at him. Please, God. He caught her, mostly. His nose bloodied, his eye shut, his mouth full of grit. They rolled. She smelled of juniper. Somehow he picked her up and ran.”
― Between Two Fires
― Between Two Fires
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