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5. Word is out

4. The boy in the leather jacket
Threats with different styles of weapons. Between the boy and Lurie. And from the girl as she passes him on the back of the motorcycle

‘He is exactly what he calls himself: a thing , that is, a monster […] He will be condemned to solitude.’

3. Refusing to read the signals, while quoting Wordsworth who points out the differences between ‘to usurp upon’ and ‘to usurp’. The parallels are obvious.

Then the mystery of Melanie approaching, getting to sleep in Lurie’s daughter’s old bedroom(!). But realizing that even she may intend to use him, he has done, is doing worse…

1. Losing the bliss of coupling with Soraya

AI suggested Disgrace (and Stoner), based on some of my most successful reads, the theme of Tragic Lucidity I am currently highly involved in and the need to find a connection in the next title.

Lurie is in many ways nothing like me, but from Page 1, the tone is about right. Promoting

His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origins of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlay and rather empty human soul.