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... Mana thought she was auditing him. They could be sitting in a restaurant or a coffee shop in one of those pauses when the conversation died, and Mana would start looking around at the other diners, wondering about their lives, and then glance back to find Ting quietly watching him. He’d...

... together incalculable, as if it would go on for us, the chips & dip on the dashboard, the KFC bucket turning above our heads, the ceme - tery on our right & then our left, & inside us, our sticky cells selfsame, our bellies full with the perfect peace of giving up, for today, on get- ting to know each...

...Nicholas Samaras © 2016 Nicholas Samaras 2016 Nicholas Samaras Reasons for Adoption Manifesto Because you reach the point of there being so much of the present joy it spills over into the past, until the past tinges with the ill-dreamt never was. Because one has won you for you...

... neighborhoods, expecting to find you? Quite soon, behind a corner maple, I spotted a man I used to know, before I’d met your father, chat- ting with a young woman (not you, thank goodness) outside a Moroc- can restaurant, no doubt exchanging some exotic-breathed secrets en route to a cinematic kiss, and I...

... ting the morning sun draw the chill from my skin. She would watch me, sometimes for several minutes, unconcerned. I squared my shoul­ ders and stuck out my chest. My days fell into a friendly pattern. There is a deep pool in a bend of Rattlesnake Creek just east of my cabin. It is fed...

... with the lock on my old leather valise—my father’s, really, but he’s long gone. “Andy” was having trouble locating a recent payment (“Amitava” more likely). It was one of those piquant days at the beginning of the semester, the afternoon air tinged with coming cold. The quad...

... inside the nunnery. In the Prioress, then, Chaucer depicts a character torn between social identities, whose behavior performs their inconsistency and thereby their artificiality. But the Prioress is not pure surface, with no depth; her unwit- ting betrayal of her social aspirations en...

... apart. My hope would be that if you’ve got several hundred strong groups of people doing this thought experiment, you can start mixing and get- ting a much better, firmer version of this kind of plan. Watson  I think this helps in understanding the problem you have with clicktivism, as you...

... never come out. Even inaction is action, and actions have consequences. The last plumes of carbonchoked air casted a yellow tinge on the morning light, drifting upward like a signal. I wondered if my father could have read it. I wondered whether the tree knew what we had done. I wondered if we knew how...

... aspirational projects. In preparation for this project last weekend, walking through Home Depot looking for a lamp cord, she'd felt a tinge of dysphoria. “If I start to slowly lose it” she turned to her husband in the ceiling fan department, “we can document my slow demise through the quality of my...

... saying, just smile at those hybrids, give them The Laughing Peasant as we’ve instructed so far, but also jut your lower lip out, ever so slightly, that look of poten- tially violent indignation, just a tinge, just enough to let them know you’re ready to invoke the law of maximum tonnage, use your...

... for a movie in the mustard-yellow Oldsmobile my aunt has given them. Later, he tells us that he has twice seen a reddish tinge in his urine at work, which is why he’s gone to visit his primary, who tells him to roll up his sleeve so a tat- tooed man in the clinic lab can pull seven tubes of blood after...

... tract, let- ting oaks grow upward to the saw, but Sull knew the land better than any company surveyor. He’d learned the place from his father and Uncle Aubrey, memorizing trees as one does a prayer book. Despite the yellow “POSTED” signs, no one meddled with him there, least not for now, though...

... work ethic. She argues instead for “put[ting] the hap back into happiness” (222), as in her brilliant reading of Mike Leigh’s 2008 film Happy-Go- Lucky and her attention to that film’s rendering of passivity as ethical capacity —​a willingness, in the happy-go-lucky protagonist, to take...

... mound. They appeared in tinges of gray in the gaining darkness. Somewhere in there was her past, now buried, breathless, that she would want to forget, walk away from, so that she could dream new dreams. Quietly Sarla rose, fiddled through the clutter and struck a match. She lit a kerosene...

... a secret savings account for Tommy. Gifts from his grandmother. Set- ting aside money for college. Stuff like that. I was shocked to find my son was seven thousand six hundred and seventy-two dollars richer. A series of payments had been made, each of them small, a hundred dol- lars or so. Odd...

... set- ting, and the personal histories of the participants themselves. Robbins  173 In framing participation as itself a form of address, with its own embedded expectations and history of relations, Bruguera realizes something very like Krauss’s...

... endures. Even when death is sudden ( poof, no more child it isn t punctual; it s ongoing, perhaps ceaseless. What unfolds in this poem between we will mourn and forget[ting] what we are mourn- ing is the condition of black life as a state of suspended animation not a getting on or getting over...

.... Considering the “enforced forget- ting” of the McCarthy era, the postwar Communist presence is not easy to recount. Wald therefore analyzes the shifting definition of “progressive” during this period, a definition that became less and less clear as clandestine Communists began using the term to signal...

... (of daughterly or dutiful devotion), and so in order to do the kind of diagnostic work that opens room for reflection, activism, and change, you have to not just figure out what kind of investments there were that stopped the new reading from get- ting a hold on people, you also have to figure out why...