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Team Δy chief Alan Britton, M.S. & J.D., of whom one sensed that no one had ever even once made fun, was an immense and physically imposing man, roughly 6'1" in every direction, with a large smooth shiny oval head in the precise center of which were extremely tiny close-set features arranged in the invulnerably cheerful expression of a man
... See moreDavid Foster Wallace • Oblivion: Stories
Chaplin aroused a mix of laughter and sentiment.
Robert Greene • The Art of Seduction
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
The Sultan of Bantam turned out to be a mere child of ten years.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
Is there any tribe more
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
A. T. Ariyaratane, a Buddhist elder, who is considered to be the Gandhi of Sri Lanka.
Jack Kornfield • Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are
Following another set of arguments, I turned to older models of religious and cultural expression that focused on alternative models of the self in relation to the transcendent beyond the exclusive community.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
Hope was a dimension of the mortal,
Andre Alexis • Fifteen Dogs
“the king of gamblers,” Nick the Greek.