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From Gerald R. Lucas
  • ...e front row looking like she was literally falling asleep as I talked. Her empty desk called to her heavy head as her eyes narrowed, further, further...
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  • ...but it was not too hot, since a rapid breeze blew in off the gulf. I think if I had run on the pavement, I would have had no difficulty running four mile Lame entry, I know, but my mind is blissfully empty this morning.
    702 bytes (131 words) - 08:39, 24 December 2019
  • ...could be worse. I’d rather have my spark of passion than be cowed by the “empty sky.”}}<br /> If equal affection cannot be,
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  • ...id the campus was closed as we drove in. I felt bad for Henry. We tried an empty church parking lot, but it was too slopey, and Henry could not pedal on his ...as, and a decent amount of people were taking advantage. I wonder, though, if by riding, I’m really not social distancing?
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  • we gather the ingredients, if not the desire, for pathos: an imploded homeroom, your empty seat pulsating
    2 KB (394 words) - 11:52, 17 February 2023
  • ...d do about it on my ride, so I just left it off for the duration wondering if it was even recording. ...ch bustle. The people I did see were solitary and dispersed. Downtown felt empty, really.
    3 KB (473 words) - 17:25, 14 May 2020
  • ...on. Therefore, formal education attacked this problem through homogeneity. If everything thought the same, then the empire could function anywhere withou ...eacher is the one in possession of the knowledge, and the students are the empty vessels in need of filling. They sit passively and listen, scrawling notes
    7 KB (1,203 words) - 10:48, 29 July 2020
  • If there were water we should stop and drink {{ln|335}} If there were only water amongst the rock
    9 KB (1,581 words) - 09:20, 24 March 2022
  • ...d (why don’t people stand for ''me'' when I walk into the classroom? Maybe if I wore my regalia?), listening to pedantic questions from two sets of attor ...as one of the last on the clerk’s roll, so far down that I began to wonder if I had shown up on the correct day. Anyone know what they do to the people w
    5 KB (836 words) - 13:23, 23 December 2019
  • ...by exploring the Paris of his prodigal past that still lives in his memory if not in reality. As Charlie looks back, he is concomitantly forced to look i ...arlie Wales. As readers, it takes a bit more effort to get our bearing, as if we are attempting to glean meaning from a conversation overheard in a bar,
    6 KB (1,032 words) - 10:45, 28 May 2022
  • ...nd not be swayed by Cobb’s empty promises. He must finally act decisively, if he is able to bring peace to himself and those he cares about. Violence, in ...n’t believe what I was listening to. Some pro-gun dude was suggesting that if we allowed guns on university campuses, then incidents like Virginia Tech w
    5 KB (995 words) - 13:42, 2 March 2020
  • ...felt balm come to my limbs. I could talk to the Devil; he was comfortable. If his odor could leave me uneasy, it also offered sympathy to desires I had n ...ort seems to allude to Faust’s own deal with Mephistopheles. Mephisto wins if Faust is ever comfortable:
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  • ...er, if he’s just a rearticulated Western icon, maybe he’s not supposed to. If Case, like Molly, is wired a certain way, he will always return to a defaul ...ly to find and be with its own kind. Case throws his shuriken into the now empty monitor — a silver star he has carried throughout the novel, given to
    6 KB (1,125 words) - 10:21, 28 May 2022
  • ...list: one, Mailer suggests, who does the best that he can under difficult, if not impossible, circumstances.{{sfn|Mailer|Mailer|2006|p=214}} Christ’s v ...areer where he seemed to push the novel beyond its traditional limits — as if to be true to his own growth, the novel could no longer contain the truth t
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  • “Yeah.” I couldn’t tell if he understood or was just letting me know he was there. That he, too, felt ...nuisance, and he needed to know that it was unacceptable.” I said, unsure if he was taking me seriously.
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  • ...imagination to consider the possibilities of freedom. This is my problem: if I am going to make a career change, I lack the imagination to see the possi Watched by empty silhouettes {{ln|30}}
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  • ...h the machine, road in front of you, and the potential around every curve. If the ride is special, you’re alive in the moment to ride and nothing else. ...idn’t see me or they just didn’t care. He laughed and said, “You’re stupid if you ride on the roads in anything but a car.”
    10 KB (1,837 words) - 17:24, 21 February 2020
  • ...class is on this page or linked off of it. Bookmark it now and return here if you get lost or confused. ...this document (and links). I promise, there is an answer to your question. If all else fails, you may contact me or ask a question on the troubleshootin
    10 KB (1,560 words) - 11:02, 22 June 2019
  • * Sitting passively with an empty desk. If you make me ask you to take your materials out, you’re demonstrating your ...responsibility to ask me for the attendance sheet so that you may sign in. If you fail to do so, you are absent.
    10 KB (1,631 words) - 11:01, 22 June 2019
  • ...ind, he is cruel and naive and needs to discover what it means to be human if he is to become a good ruler and father. ...endly gibes — its death suggests more of an ambiguity in their success, as if something precious has been slain all for the pride of man (and I do mean m
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