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Les jeudis, Jared et moi ne manquions jamais le cours de l’un des personnages centraux de l’université : l’écrivain Harry Quebert. C’était un homme très impressionnant, par son charisme et sa personnalité, un enseignant hors normes, adulé par ses élèves et respecté par ses pairs.
Joël Dicker • La Vérité sur l'Affaire Harry Quebert (French Edition)
The story that isn’t Mark Nechtr’s by Mark Nechtr concerns a young competitive archer, named Dave, and his live-in lover, named L____. Dave, who is not nearly so healthy as Mark, believes that the only things that give his life meaning and direction are his competitive archery and his lover, L____, who is a great deal more attractive and sympatheti
... See moreDavid Foster Wallace • Girl With Curious Hair
Your godparents, also city people, live a mile down the road. She has red hair and cat’s-eye glasses; he is bald and does one voice to impersonate all four Beatles.
Lena Dunham • Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned
Gilbert, in essence, locates the crucial aspect of the union at the level of what makes the Word to be the Word or Son, the proprietas personalis: this – because it is not the same as the definition of the divine essence – is communicable to and in finite agency, and when so communicated, without reserve or interruption, constitutes a finite agent
... See moreRowan Williams • Christ the Heart of Creation
Alastair Davies
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Curiously enough, his pain in the affair beforehand had consisted almost entirely in the sense that he must seem dishonourable, and sink in the opinion of the Garths: he had not occupied himself with the inconvenience and possible injury that his breach might occasion them, for this exercise of the imagination on other people’s needs is not common
... See moreGeorge Eliot • Middlemarch
Gary is ten years older than me and perfect for his job. A big chunk of Missing Persons is getting people who stay far from cops to talk to you – street hookers to tell you about the new girl who matches that teenager on the news, homeless addicts to drop by and mention the guy who tried to sleep on their patch last night and looked a lot like that
... See moreTana French • The Trespasser
But Will wanted to talk with Dorothea alone, and was impatient of slow circumstances. However slight the terrestrial intercourse between Dante and Beatrice or Petrarch and Laura, time changes the proportion of things, and in later days it is preferable to have fewer sonnets and more conversation. Necessity excused stratagem, but stratagem was limit
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