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Chapter 88: “All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr (2015)
“The brain is locked in total darkness of course, children, says the voice. It floats in a clear liquid inside the skull, never in the […]
Chapter 85: “Guard of Honor” by James Gould Cozzens (1949)
“The whole morning had been upsetting, with too many things going on at once. Counting his own pulse, Colonel Ross could tell that his blood […]
Chapter 84: “The Caine Mutiny” by Herman Wouk (1952)
“Willie experienced the strange sensations of the first days of a new captain: a shrinking of his personal identiy, and a stretching out of his […]
Chapter 83: “Andersonville” by MacKinlay Kantor (1956)
“Nineteen months ago, he mourned, partridges were here. Nineteen months ago the open pine forest was compassionate. What rare concentrated tragedies will have occurred within […]
Chapter 80.2: “Dragon’s Teeth” by Upton Sinclair (1943)
“Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief […]
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 74: “Tales of the South Pacific” by James A. Michener (1948)
“I wish I could tell you about the South Pacific. The way it actually was. The endless ocean. The infinite specks of coral we called […]