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The Fate of Patroclus
About eight years ago, my brother Craig allowed me to borrow his new Honda Civic, which he had named Xanthus in honor of Achilles’ immortal horse in The Iliad. “Beware the fate of Patroclus,” he warned, reluctantly handing me the keys....
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The Burthen of the Mystery
On my first night of class in doctoral school, our Literary Theory professor asked us to go around the table and introduce ourselves, including our favorite authors and our reasons for continuing our graduate studies in English....
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Why I Watch Sex and the City
So I may as well confess it here. I am a ritual watcher of sitcoms. When I am lonely, when I am hurt, when I am confused, ambivalent, frightened, insecure, I watch sitcoms. After a particularly debilitating break-up last fall, I spent a solid month watching nothing but episodes of The Office....
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Standing Ovations and the Convergence of the Twain
Several years ago while standing in a grocery store cheese section, my mother (who is a staggeringly empathetic, beautiful person—a much better person than I am, in fact) asked me, with all the heavily accented French of your average NPR Host, if I would consider it “effete” if she served a wheel of Brie and some Water Crackers before a dinner party....
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Pearls
Yesterday afternoon, I received a call from my father that I’ve been dreading. My grandmother, his mother, had suffered a heart attack sometime on Tuesday and had been rushed to the hospital. She had been stabilized, but they had discovered that she was now in congestive heart failure. They had drained the excess fluid off her heart, and for the present, she was resting comfortably....
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Issue 72
Memoir by Lauren Winner, Poetry by James Harpur, Art by Guy Chase and Adrian Wiszniewski
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