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Madeline Miller • The Song of Achilles: A Novel
“He’s not a familiar,” Franny said. “He’s a foundling.”
Alice Hoffman • The Rules of Magic
the old woman’s injunction to “be proper” kills off any opportunity to expand.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Bund Deutsche Mädel,
Jackie French • Hitler's Daughter
A little jackdaw, who dresses himself up in fine feathers as a grand peacock, is rejected as an imposter by the peacocks and rejected again, this time as a bird getting above himself, when he tries to return to the jackdaws. It is the Trimalchio story in a very different guise and from a very different point of view.
Mary Beard • SPQR
Having locked the door behind him, he crept quietly downstairs.
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
the Berry Man can scatter himself into a hundred disparate parts and a prying eye would see nothing but the same leaves and twigs as lie on any woodland floor. But once the prying eye has passed on the Berry Man draws himself back in. The scraps of bark slowly shift along the ground and are reintroduced to each other; the chill wind shuffles him in
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