Talk:Brief Lives - Revision history

Faterson at 10:45, 30 July 2015

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Faterson at 23:38, 16 July 2014

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Faterson: /* «Government Girl» */

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«Government Girl»

Faterson at 11:20, 14 July 2014

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Faterson: «Government Girl»

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«Government Girl»

Faterson: «At the MOMa»

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«At the MOMa»

Faterson: «Air Boat Operator»

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«Air Boat Operator»

Faterson at 11:12, 14 July 2014

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Faterson at 11:11, 14 July 2014

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<div style="font-size:1.25em; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1.0em; font-style: italic">by '''[[Alan Vanneman]]''' (2014)</div>

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== «There at the ''New Yorker''» (conclusion) ==

The world had changed, and the ''New Yorker'' with it; but now the ''New Yorker'' was only a part of the world, instead of being slightly apart from it.  <span class="par">¶</span>
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	<div style="font-size:1.25em; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1.0em; font-style: italic">by '''[[Alan Vanneman]]''' (2014)</div>		<div style="font-size:1.25em; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1.0em; font-style: italic">by '''[[Alan Vanneman]]''' (2014)</div>

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 == «Government Girl» ==
-You can spend a decade waiting for a moment, and the moment would be nothing without the decade. That’s what’s so unfair. That you can’t seize the moment without wasting the decade. At least I couldn’t. At least I didn’t. &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
+You can spend a decade waiting for a moment, and the moment would be nothing without the decade. That’s what’s so unfair. That you can’t seize the moment without wasting the decade. At least I couldn’t. At least I didn’t.
 <span class="in">[...]</span> the decade is wasted, even if the moment is seized. Chiefly through fear. That’s the chief time waster for those like us. We wait until life is over before we venture from the shell. When the tumult’s over, we peep out, to discover that indeed it is over. &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>

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 The world had changed, and the ''New Yorker'' with it; but now the ''New Yorker'' was only a part of the world, instead of being slightly apart from it. &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
 <div class="sig">--[[User:Faterson|Faterson]]</div>
 == «Air Boat Operator» ==
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 <span class="in">[...]</span> the decade is wasted, even if the moment is seized. Chiefly through fear. That’s the chief time waster for those like us. We wait until life is over before we venture from the shell. When the tumult’s over, we peep out, to discover that indeed it is over. &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
 <div class="sig">--[[User:Faterson|Faterson]]</div>

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	<span class="par">¶</span>  Malcolm looked into eyes that seemed at once feral and friendly—rather, he thought later, like America itself.  <span class="par">¶</span>		<span class="par">¶</span>  Malcolm looked into eyes that seemed at once feral and friendly—rather, he thought later, like America itself.  <span class="par">¶</span>
		+	<div class="sig">--[[User:Faterson\|Faterson]]</div>
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		+	== «Government Girl» ==
		+
		+	You can spend a decade waiting for a moment, and the moment would be nothing without the decade. That’s what’s so unfair. That you can’t seize the moment without wasting the decade. At least I couldn’t. At least I didn’t.  <span class="par">¶</span>
		+
		+	<span class="in">[...]</span> the decade is wasted, even if the moment is seized. Chiefly through fear. That’s the chief time waster for those like us. We wait until life is over before we venture from the shell. When the tumult’s over, we peep out, to discover that indeed it is over.  <span class="par">¶</span>
	<div class="sig">--[[User:Faterson\|Faterson]]</div>		<div class="sig">--[[User:Faterson\|Faterson]]</div>

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	Mr. Osbourne he liked to drink blood. Just pour a little whiskey in it and drink it down. It makes you feel good. So I got to be sort of a blood drinker myself. There ain’t nothing wrong with it. It makes you feel good, calms you down. I like that deer blood.		Mr. Osbourne he liked to drink blood. Just pour a little whiskey in it and drink it down. It makes you feel good. So I got to be sort of a blood drinker myself. There ain’t nothing wrong with it. It makes you feel good, calms you down. I like that deer blood.
		+	<div class="sig">--[[User:Faterson\|Faterson]]</div>
		+
		+	== «At the MOMa» ==
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		+	<span class="par">¶</span>  Malcolm looked into eyes that seemed at once feral and friendly—rather, he thought later, like America itself.  <span class="par">¶</span>
	<div class="sig">--[[User:Faterson\|Faterson]]</div>		<div class="sig">--[[User:Faterson\|Faterson]]</div>

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		+	== «Air Boat Operator» ==
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		+	Mr. Osbourne he liked to drink blood. Just pour a little whiskey in it and drink it down. It makes you feel good. So I got to be sort of a blood drinker myself. There ain’t nothing wrong with it. It makes you feel good, calms you down. I like that deer blood.
		+	<div class="sig">--[[User:Faterson\|Faterson]]</div>

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+<div style="padding-bottom: 2.0em; padding-top: 0.5em"><span style="font-size:1.2em">'''It's so simple!'''</span> Just press the tab with '''[http://aboq.org/index.php?title=Quotations:Brief_Lives&action=edit&section=new the <span style="font-size: 1.5em">+</span> sign]''' at the top of this webpage, and off you go!</div>
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 == «There at the ''New Yorker''» (conclusion) ==