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...-Strauss would later turn into the vast introduction to Tristes Tropiques. Sad tropics in stories about the poor world, silent tropics, drunk with sun or fog...

... of the Student Center Art Gallery, and the movement referred to as the New Tendencies in art or in the Novi Sad group poetry workshop, [István] Domonkos, [Oto] Tonlai, and later Vujica Rešin Tucić, affiliated with the Hungarian-language magazine Új simposion ( New Symposium )—evolved in the Slovenian cultural...

... and generous in my home in Centro Habana at the party to celebrate her release from jail. She remem- bers him standing in front of a battery of bottles on my glass table, while she sang of treachery and desire with her sad...

... sadness (we speak of Achilles’s wrath in the Iliad, but it’s his sadness that is sublime), a sadness whose presence persists beneath the greatest and most genuine happiness, even before the moment of real openness to the other. This sadness is not caused by anything external, nor is it resolvable...

... were those years that made the stones talk that gave us wings that gave us memory 6736 boundary 2 29:3 / sheet 37 of 265 How, then, am I not going to feel sad that no one takes...

...., III, ed. All the Sad Young Men. Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Wickman, Matthew. The Ruins of Experience: Scotland’s “Romantick” Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness. Philadelphia: University...

... blocks. But this, then, would be indistinguishable from the ‘‘censored from the ‘‘erased 236 boundary 2 / Spring 2006 15. No poem can be conceived for such ‘‘profound sadness’’ for such ‘‘moral loneliness Dread in the rib cage air sucked out of the body the visceral undertow of enormous...

... boundary 2 / Summer 2010 Brotherhood army in prison, at the same time the yogic hippie flying in from other lives advises like a pragmatist, “Change your hair, change your life” (12). “Long, sad history of L.A. land use, as Aunt Reet [the realtor] never tired of pointing...

..., sugar cannot bring forth gratifying sweetness without the complement of salt. The sweetness of home is made possible through feelings of sadness and displacement, and the plenitude of home is made imaginable through feelings of lack and loss. This intertwining of love and sorrow is vividly...

... unstable. I’m jumping on top of a police car on fire. I’m ecstatic. My hearts burns with ecstasy in my sadness. The room, once white and filled with only the prospect of making (a discom- fort only the makers know), is neither this nor that. The streets once paved are now dirt and gravel, dust...

... to the Great War . . . and he was very happy to go” (Barry 2011: 29). While the novel deploys the words happy and happi- ness recurrently (fifteen and seventeen times, respectively, more than three times the number of sad/sadness mentions), the sentiment can feel mis- aligned with the novel’s events...

... surface of Romantic veneer, the poem performs an intriguing poetic act of secularization. The pretended ignorance and loss of cultural memory is given its interminable resolution in what follows the enchanting, singsong-like opening lines: ‘‘I don’t know the reason why / I should be feeling so sad 5...

..., and poison both theatrically and historically transmitted across registers of space and time. Mark Fisher speaks of the unutterably sad dimension of Peace's crime novels—unlike James Ellroy's, again—and it is the twelfth, final scene of recollection and exorcism that completes this sad, spectral history...

... to scribble in my books, we all did. when someone would say the words that I made up, I would be perplexed, and at the same time, sad. because everything was known; everything was known. growing up, the scribbles—formerly...

... performance an expression of the sadness he must have felt having to go it alone without Sam? The song is deeply mournful and exposes such grief at being bereft, I think his sadness about leaving Sun Records, Sam, and Marion Keisker...

... expressing love, loss, sadness, fear, anger, even nostalgia—while also making clear, if often in brief clusters, a sort of pointillism, that the poems are “about” something that is not, itself, the language. It's one thing to cut and paste, mime, procedurally reorder, and otherwise borrow material from...

... Darwin’s discoveries as seriously as those of Newton or Einstein: ‘‘The prob- lem of Whitehead was to avoid wheeling metaphysics in to make it play the sad role of rendering thinkable what the bifurcation of nature has rendered unintelligible: a nature without sound or odor that a mind would hastily...

.... Federman, Raymond. Aunt Rachel’s Fur: Novel Improvised in Sad Laughter. Transacted from the French by Federman and Patricia Privat-Standley. Normal/ Tallahassee, Fla.: FC2, 2001. Ferrall, Charles. Modernist Writing and Reactionary Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Fynsk...

... bodies they needed to smuggle out and trade for vitamins and minerals So they left me here and I was sad because I thought they died But I know now that they did not die I know now that they merely abandoned me I know this because when I was arrested for trying to flee the whitened...

... never cease to embarrass me, nor my bad gums and chipped teeth. Even when, visually, to add to the sad equation, I had long gangly legs topped with a thick, dense waist with developed hips that did their best to betray my petite frame. Sure, I would have looked good in a sari...