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"I read the title story 푸른수염의 첫번째 아내 in 74 minutes and while I enjoyed it, I anticipated what was happening quite early in the story and was not much surprised by anything that happened afterwards. Perhaps the situation would be more shocking and surprising to a Korean person living at the time the story was written but for me it was a bit predictable! Nonetheless I will keep reading. The stories are reasonable length" — Jul 29, 2025 10:21PM
"I read the title story 푸른수염의 첫번째 아내 in 74 minutes and while I enjoyed it, I anticipated what was happening quite early in the story and was not much surprised by anything that happened afterwards. Perhaps the situation would be more shocking and surprising to a Korean person living at the time the story was written but for me it was a bit predictable! Nonetheless I will keep reading. The stories are reasonable length" — Jul 29, 2025 10:21PM
But what became known as Turner’s Frontier Thesis—which argued that the expansion of settlement across a frontier of “free land” created a uniquely American form of political equality, a vibrant, forward-looking individualism—placed a wager
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“Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.”
― The Luck of the Bodkins
― The Luck of the Bodkins
“The past is an inheritance, a gift and a burden. It can’t be shirked. You carry it everywhere. There’s nothing for it but to get to know it.”
― These Truths: A History of the United States
― These Truths: A History of the United States
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