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Ruud62
28 January 2009 on 9:04 PM |
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Amerigo Bonasera sat in New York Criminal Court Number 3 and waited for justice; vengeance on the men who had so cruelly hurt his daughter, who had tried to dishonor her.
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Arjan
28 January 2009 on 9:42 AM |
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ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank near the corner of Eleventh and First and is in print large enough to be seen from the backseat of the cab as is lurches forward in the traffic leaving Wall Street and just as Timothy Price notices the words a bus pulls up, the advertisement for Les Misérables on its side blocking his view, but Price who is with Pierce & Pierce and twenty-six doesn’t seem to care because he tells the driver he will give him five dollars to turn up the radio, “Be My Baby” on WYNN, and the driver, black, not American, does so.
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Chielos
26 January 2009 on 8:51 PM |
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“Liar,” she says to the highway sign that claims “The People of Indiana Welcome You.”
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Bookworm
25 January 2009 on 12:49 PM |
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It is said that the difference between an adventure and a tragedy lies in the outcome.
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Chielos
23 January 2009 on 9:16 AM |
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Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
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Reims
23 January 2009 on 12:44 AM |
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It was the day my grandmother exploded.
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Shelf
22 January 2009 on 5:54 PM |
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Before humours, there were elements: air, fire, water, earth.
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Celia
22 January 2009 on 11:01 AM |
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Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening Hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.
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Reims
21 January 2009 on 8:55 AM |
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All stories are love stories.
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Bookworm
20 January 2009 on 11:14 AM |
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Once upon a time, and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo…
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