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Though he coined the name "Pandemonium"—"all the demons"—for the palace that Satan and his fallen crew build in Hell, he also coined the word "self-esteem," as contemporary a concept as there is and one that governed much of Milton's lif

"Have you tried to contact her?" "No. Why would I?" "Because you might have a sense of responsibility, which, in the age of DNA..." "I sent her mother money for an abortion. Which she used to go to Detroit, where she found a rich man."

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The interest in the thriller is the ethical and eristic conflict between good and evil, between Us and Them. The interest in the study of a murderer is the observation, by the innocent many, of the sufferings of the guilty one. the dialectic of innocence

Art as resistance. Saw Wai's seemingly innocuous lines were printed in the weekly Love Journal. But read vertically, the first word of each line forms the phrase "Power crazy senior general Than Shwe".

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His novels on the city in Africa were more widely read than Achebe. Who will chronicle that very modern story of Africa in his stead?

In a dark time, the eye begins to see

On words intended to obscure and phrases that mangle reality... Ionesco as the aspirin of modern day life, the playwright of the fringe

Very old are we men; Our dreams are tales Told in dim Eden By Eve's nightingales; We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie.