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Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener–A beautiful and exquisite conclusion

Anita Mathias — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:48:00 +0000

Isn’t this a heart-breaking and exquisite conclusion to Melville’s wonderful short story, Bartleby the Scrivener. “The report was this: that Bartleby had been a subordinate clerk in the Dead Letter Office at Washington, from which he had been suddenly removed by a change in the administration. When I think over this rumor, I cannot adequately […]

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A dramatic first paragraph. Salman Rushdie The Moor’s Last Sigh.

Anita Mathias — Wed, 26 May 2010 20:22:00 +0000

Scene is seen. Here’s a maximilist and visual opening paragraph. The Moor’s Last Sigh Pg. 138 ”Once a year, my mother Aurora Zogoiby liked to dance higher than the Gods. Her white hair flying around her in long loose exclamations, her exposed belly not old-bat-fat but fit-cat-flat, her bare feet stamping, her ankles a-jingle with silver […]

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Salman Rushdie–Wandering between Two Worlds

Anita Mathias — Thu, 20 May 2010 21:38:00 +0000

Rushdie–The Courter I became a British citizen that year. And the passport did, in many ways, set me free. It allowed me to come and go, to make choices. But I too have ropes around my neck, I have them to this day, pulling me this way and that, East and West, the nooses tightening, […]

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