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Leif Enger _ Virgil Wander
My sister comes on like a box of nails, but her devotion to the mythic is profound.
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Leif Enger _ Virgil Wander
telegram saying, "Existence is great but don't read so much into it.
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Leif Enger _ Virgil Wander
He had the heartening bulk of the aging athlete defeated by pastry.
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Leif Enger _ Virgil Wander
At first I thought common nouns were hardest hit, coffee and doorway and so on, but it soon became clear that the missing were mostly adjectives.
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Leif Enger _ Peace Like a River
Once in school, going down to lunch from our third-floor classroom, Valentino Vail had leaned over the banister without warning and loosed a cataract of orange vomit. The stairway was the usual open stack and Valentino's breakfast just dropped forever, three stories down, touching a good number of lives as it rocketed past and hitting the basement tile with a sound zookeepers must hear sometimes, around the elephants.
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Leif Enger _ Virgil Wander
He had the heartening bulk of the aging athlete defeated by pastry. He delivered all news as though it were good.
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Leif Enger _ Peace Like a River
was working the cold up
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Leif Enger _ Peace Like a River
Sleep that day was a warm pool into which I dove and stayed, sporadically lifting my head to sense the world.
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Leif Enger _ Virgil Wander
A person never knows what is next -- I don't, anyway. The surface of everything is thinner than we know. A person can fall right through, without any warning at all.
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Leif Enger _ Virgil Wander
He had the heartening bulk of the aging athlete defeated by pastry. He delivered all news as though it were good. Most welcome was his prediction that language would gradually return.
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Leif Enger _ Peace Like a River
Even as we sat, prying lids off milk bottles, we could hear the persecuted cooks banging around back in the kitchen, grandmas barking at each other, preparing the daily grotesque.
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Leif Enger _ Peace Like a River
No miracle happens without a witness. Someone to declare, Here's what I saw. Here's how it went. Make of it what you will.
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