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The zeros stared back, every one a wound leaking the word "poison." "That's the weight of the Sun," Caldwell said.
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What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand.
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And beyond our galaxy are other galaxies, in the universe all told at least a hundred billion, each containing a hundred billion stars. Do these figures mean anything to you?
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The muttered hint, "Remember, you have a stroke here," freezes my joints like a blast from Siberia.
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How sad, how strange, we make companions out of air and hurt them, so they will defy us, completing creation.
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All dancing is now is standing in place and letting the devil of the music enter you.
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The throat: how strange, that there is not more erotic emphasis upon it. For here, through this compound pulsing pillar, our life makes its leap into spirit, and in the other direction gulps down what it needs of the material world.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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John Updike
1960s © W. Earl Snyder
Born:
March 18, 1932
Died:
January 27, 2009
(aged 76)
Bio:
John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.
Known for:
Rabbit, Run (1960)
Rabbit at Rest (1990)
Rabbit Is Rich (1981)
Rabbit Redux (1971)
The Centaur (1963)
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