Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won
Who is John Galt?
A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head.
You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't.
The first time Caesar approached Cora about running north, she said no.
There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
Call me Ishmael.
In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do East Coast family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley.
The madness of an autumn prairie cold front coming through...ringing throughout the house was an alarm bell that no one but Alfred and Enid could hear directly.
When people ask me what I do--taxi drivers, hairdressers--I tell them I work in an office.
On the heights above the river Xzan, at the site of certain ancient ruins, Iucounu the Laughing Magician had built a manse to his private taste: an eccentric structure of steep gables, balconies, sky-...
Indian summer is like a woman.
NO ONE would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as me...
This is the story of a man named Eddie and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It may seem strange to start a story with and ending, but all endings are also beginnings. We just don't k...
Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber as a word was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah ha...
I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected to Congress.
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