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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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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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i-laughed
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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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Michael Chabon |
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I had slipped into that familiar marijuana state which lies between happiness and utter panic, and my heart was pounding.
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Michael Chabon |