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She always imagined their voices entangled somewhere in the wires when they spoke, caught up in a grid she didn’t fully understand, passing back and forth. Once the calls were disconnected, she imagined the echoes of old conversations would be trapped there, floating back and forth with no exit, like ghosts.
Demon’s twofold hobby was collecting old masters and young mistresses. He also liked middle-aged puns.
Ada, or Ardor
Vladimir Nabokov
The Greco-Syrian monarch Antiochus IV Epiphanes ruled one of the three major segments of Alexander’s vast empire, which had once stretched from the plains of Macedonia to the mountains of India. But, by the early 160s BCE, in an attempt to integrate Israel fully into his realm and to eliminate any faith-based opposition to that program, he launched a religious persecution against Judaism itself.
The First Christmas
Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan
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