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The annual celebrations of God's mercy, justice, and power, the feasts or fasts undertaken in praise of His Name, the miracles He was supposed to have thrown our way over the centuries--in my grandfather's mind, it was all nullified by the thing he had not yet learned to call the Holocaust. In Egypt, in Shushan, in the time of Judah Maccabee, God had intervened to deliver us with a mighty hand and outstretched arm; big deal. When we were se..
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Michael Chabon |
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Irv had rediscovered, as surprisingly few men do, that the secret to perfect male happiness is a well-equipped clubhouse.
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Michael Chabon |
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So you were going to shoot him," Dick says. "That's some badass fucking therapy, you guys. Damn! Strict Freudian, huh?"
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Michael Chabon |
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Joe learned to view the comic book hero in his formfitting costume, not as a pulp absurdity but as a celebration of the lyricism of the naked (albeit tinted) human form in motion. It was not all violence and retribution in the early stories of Kavalier Clay; Joe's work also articulated the simple joy of unfettered movement, of the able body, in a way that captured the yearnings not only of his crippled cousin but of an entire generation of ..
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Michael Chabon |
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series you followed. Not even if you died. Alive or dead or a thousand miles distant, you were always going to be on the hook for work that was neither a procedure nor a series of steps but, rather, something that demanded your full, constant attention without necessarily calling on you to do, perform, or say anything at all.
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Michael Chabon |
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WHAT'S SO GREAT ABOUT WOMEN, ANYWAY? And, lower: HEY, EVERY WOMAN, PAL, IS A VOLUME OF STORIES A CATALOGUE OF MOVEMENTS A SPECTACULAR ARRAY OF IMAGES Then: PLUS THERE'S THE MYSTERY OF LEARNING ABOUT HER CHILDHOOD A fourth man had concluded: AND OF EVERYTHING THAT'S CONCEALED UNDER HER CLOTHES
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Michael Chabon |
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Such men feel imprisoned by invisible chains--walled in, sewn up in layers of batting. For them, the final feat of autoliberation was all too foreseeable.
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Michael Chabon |
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Because you know, truth is, I don't give a shit about some scratched-up vinyl Rahsaan Kirk, Ornette Coleman sound-like-a-goose-trying-to-fuck-a-bicycle bootleg pressing from the rare Paris concert of 1967. I spend five minutes listening to that, I'm like to want to slap somebody. I
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Michael Chabon |
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What kind of heaven is that, you can't have your records?
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Michael Chabon |
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The very triteness of it seemed to ensure its likelihood.
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Michael Chabon |
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Zabud' o tom, otkuda ty sovershaesh' eskeip, -- skazal Iozef, tsitiruia staruiu sententsiiu Kornbliuma. -- Trevozh'sia tol'ko o tom kuda>>.
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Michael Chabon |
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Liudi, -- skazal on, -- zamechaiut, tol'ko kogda im spetsial'no ob etom skazhesh'. I snova zamechaiut, tol'ko kogda im osobo napomnish'.
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Michael Chabon |
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adventures befall the unadventuresome as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold.
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Michael Chabon |
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I tol'ko togda, posle vsekh let ucheniia i vystuplenii, podvigov, udivlenii i chudes, Dzho nachal ponimat' istinnuiu prirodu magii. Fokusnik slovno by obeshchal, chto porvannoe na kusochki mozhno vosstanovit' bez vsiakikh shvov, chto ischeznuvshee mozhet opiat' poiavit'sia, chto zhalkuiu kuchku pyli i oblomkov na ladoni mozhno vossoedinit' pri pomoshchi slova, chto bumazhnaia roza, pozhrannaia ogniom, mozhet snova rastsvesti iz gorki pepla...
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Michael Chabon |
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Garri Gudini bluzhdal po <> i <> vsego mira, obremenennyi tselym gruzovym triumom iashchikov i kletei, nabitykh tsepiami, vsiakimi zheleziakami, iarko raskrashennymi poloskami metalla i prochei broskoi atributikoi, no zhelanie u nego vse eto vremia bylo tol'ko odno-edinstvennoe, tak nikogda i ne osushchestvlennoe: deistvitel'no spastis', khotia na odin mig sovershit' nastoiashchii eskeip. Prosunut' golovu za granits..
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Michael Chabon |
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No Dzho kazalos', chto sredi vsego vysheperechislennogo -- i faustovskogo gordogo vysokomeriia v tom chisle -- ne soderzhalos' nastoiashchikh prichin togo, chto vremia ot vremeni tolkalo liudei vse zhe otvazhivat'sia sozdavat' golemov. Oformlenie golema bylo dlia cheloveka zhestom nadezhdy, leleemoi vopreki nadezhde, v poru otchaianiia. V etom vyrazhalos' vechnoe sil'noe zhelanie togo, chtoby neskol'ko magicheskikh slov i iskusnaia ruka smo..
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Michael Chabon |
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Bird of Wide Experience I
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Michael Chabon |
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He felt the shock of contact. The weight of her against his chest felt like something she had decided to entrust to him. He
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Michael Chabon |
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I guess I don't fit the new corporate profile." "Which is?" "Competence."
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Michael Chabon |
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I said that I had heard curiosity could be harmful, in particular to cats
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science
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Michael Chabon |
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Black people live their whole lives in a fantasy world, it's just not their fantasy.
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Michael Chabon |
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. The
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Michael Chabon |
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The special-order French bees were prey to wanderlust and ennui. But
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Michael Chabon |
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Her tangle of wild black curls had enacted medusa feats in zero gravity.
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Michael Chabon |
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From the first that was a part of his attraction to her: not her brokenness but her potential for being mended and, even more, the challenge that mending her would pose. He
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Michael Chabon |
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burned off their mutual contempt by abusing the counter help. My
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Michael Chabon |
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Then I reminded myself that I was always willing to listen to arguments in favor of avoiding an unpleasant chore, and I shook my head.
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Michael Chabon |
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Kazhdaia vselennaia, i nasha lichnaia v tom chisle, beret svoe nachalo v razgovore.
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Michael Chabon |
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A zatem tot chelovek ser'eznym, no uchtivym i umudrennym tonom napomnil Maksu, chto svoboda -- eto dolg, kotoryi mozhet byt' oplachen tol'ko zavoevaniem svobody dlia ostal'nykh.
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Michael Chabon |
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Oni byli deti, -- skazal nemetskii ofitser. -- A my byli volki.
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Michael Chabon |
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Tak uzh poluchaetsia, chto issledovateli neizmenno daiut svoi imena mestam, kotorye izvodiat ikh ili ubivaiut.
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Michael Chabon |
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Never worry about what you're escaping from," he said. "Worry about what you're escaping to."
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Michael Chabon |
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Eto byla Bess Gudini, -- skazal Kornblium. -- Ona ideal'no znala litso svoego muzha. I mogla prochest' na nem pechat' porazheniia. Mogla podoiti k predstaviteliu gazety. Mogla so slezami na glazakh i kraskoi na plechakh i grudi poprosit' tshchatel'no obdumat' polnyi krakh kar'ery ee muzha, kogda na drugoi chashke vesov lezhal vsego-navsego broskii zagolovok v zavtrashnei utrennei gazete. Mogla melkimi shazhkami, s ser'eznym litsom otnesti s..
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Michael Chabon |
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Te, kto zarabatyvaet sebe na zhizn', igraia s katastrofoi, razvivaiut v sebe sposobnost' pessimisticheskogo voobrazheniia, chto zachastuiu pochti neotlichimo ot pronitsatel'nosti.
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Michael Chabon |
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All he would have needed to do, to find comfort in the Christian's words, was to believe.
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Michael Chabon |
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We can't take pleasure in a work of art, not in good conscience, without accepting the implicit intention of the artist to please us.
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Michael Chabon |
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Hyperbolic myths of origin have from the earliest times served to lend a paradoxical plausibility to the biographies of heroes.
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Michael Chabon |
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I told you, hon, I'm not a real person. This is my job.
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Michael Chabon |
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Superheroes spend a lot of time wishing they could just stay home, spend time with their families and loved ones, date the girl they love, be like everybody else.
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Michael Chabon |
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Here its stock-in-trade was ironies, coincidences, and the only true portents: those that revealed themselves, unmistakable and impossible to ignore, in retrospect.
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Michael Chabon |
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'Forget about what you are escaping from,' " he said, quoting an old maxim of Kornblum's. " 'Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.' "
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Michael Chabon |
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You were right once, young man," Anapol said. "That may be all the being right you get."
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Michael Chabon |
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there had been times in the past when my sister-in-law's counsel, while never useful, had provided a certain amount of welcome bemusement, like the advice of an oracular hen.
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Michael Chabon |
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Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big black eyeglasses!
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