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The Ninety-eighth (opens the original)
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“The joy that certain sonorities had caused him, the increase of strength they had given him wherewith to discover others, led the listener on too from one discovery to another, or rather it was the creator himself who guided him, deriving, from the colours he had just hit upon, a wild joy which gave him the strength to discover, to fling himself upon others which they seemed to call for, enraptured, quivering as though from the shock of an electric spark when the sublime came spontaneously to l
The Ninety-seventh (opens the original)
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“When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from whom we sprang come and shower upon us their riches and their spells, asking to be allowed to contribute to the new emotions which we feel and in which, erasing their former image, we recast them in an original creation.” - Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time Volume V: The Captive & The Fugitive (p. 96)Book in the Pipeline: Moo by Jane Smiley
The Ninety-sixth (opens the original)
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“There was no wind, the trees in the surrounding woods were quiet; yet because of this very stillness they seemed a solid mass stretching out on all sides of me in perfect circumference to the last boundaries of the world, an all-pervading triumphant mass of greenery. Nothing but this still and ruined plantation existed; it was the very heart of the universe and I was the master not alone of its being at the present instant but of all its past and hence all its memories.” - William Styron, The C
'The Sea, the Sea' at Sea Isle (opens the original)
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The Ninety-fifth (opens the original)
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“She had raised herself from the ground, but her foot had been twisted in the fall, and she was scarcely able to stand. The gentleman offered his services, and perceiving that her modesty declined what her situation rendered necessary, took her up in his arms without further delay, and carried her down the hill. Then passing through the garden, the gate of which had been left opened by Margaret, he bore her directly into the house, whither Margaret was just arrived, and quitted not his hold till
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