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People I meet . . . . the effect upon me of my early life . . . of the ward and city I live in . . . of the nation, The latest news . . . discoveries, inventions, societies . . . authors old and new, My dinner, dress, associates, looks, business, compliments, dues, The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love, The sickness of one of my folks—or of myself . . . or ill-doing . . . or loss or lack of money . . . or depressions or exaltations, They come to me days and nights and go from me again, But they are not the Me myself.
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman, American Renaissance Books
she who at any time, if she picked up a book, would at once get engrossed in whatever text she happened to slip into “from the book’s brink” with the natural movement of a water creature put back into its brook.
Ada, or Ardor
Vladimir Nabokov
The earliest recorded use of the term “werewolf” in the Anglo-Saxon world goes back to the year 1000 AD as a synonym for the Devil in the Ecclesiastical Ordinances of King Cnut.
Sons of Cain
Peter Vronsky
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