Andrew“But in the earlier hours, or so I have read, they still have got their daylight minds. It takes the midnight mind to do the […]
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Chapter 81.2: “Rabbit Is Rich” by John Updike (1982)
“One world: everybody fucks everybody. When he thinks of all the fucking there’s been in the world and all the fucking there’s going to be, […]
Chapter 77: “Advise and Consent” by Allen Drury (1960)
“Son, this is a Washington, D.C. kind of lie. It’s when the other person knows you’re lying, and also knows you know he knows.” Mr. […]
Chapter 73: “The Orphan Master’s Son” by Adam Johnson (2013)
“But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.” CITIZENS – gather around the individualistic screens […]
Chapter 14: “All the King’s Men” by Robert Penn Warren (1947)
“And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or […]
Chapter 8: “American Pastoral” by Philip Roth (1998)
“You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or […]