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The History of Sound

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Fighting for Life (New York Review Books Classics)

by S. Josephine Baker

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Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

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“Some people,” she says, “think the granite floor of the Pacific was torn away to make the moon. Darwin’s son, actually. He said that. That when the Earth was young it rotated very quickly—it went so fast that part of it flew off into ...more

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“There once was a very great American surgeon named Halsted. He was married to a nurse. He loved her—immeasurably. One day Halsted noticed that his wife’s hands were chapped and red when she came back from surgery. And so he invented rubber gloves. For her. It is one of the great love stories in medicine. The difference between inspired medicine and uninspired medicine is love.
When I met Ana, I knew:
I loved her to the point of invention.”
― Sarah Ruhl, The Clean House

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“-- because love is a critical ingredient in the fireman's code, which demands that you are willing to risk your life for your fire-house brothers.”
― David Halberstam, Firehouse

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