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Lorrie Moore _ A Gate at the Stairs
Irrigation sprinklers like the skeletons of brontosauruses. -Tassie Keltjin"
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Lorrie Moore _ A Gate at the Stairs
Pek çok eski Fransız tüccarı doğayla, özellikle de suyla öyle düşmanca ilişkiler içindeymiş ki isim verdikleri her şey kasvetlerini taşıyordu: bütün hoş tatil yerlerinin adları Fransızcadan Ölümün Kapısı, Dalgaların Mezarı ya da Şeytanın Gölü olarak çevrilmişti.
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Lorrie Moore _ A Gate at the Stairs
Küçük bir sinek vızlayıp kulağımın yanından geçti, sonra kayboldu. Daha önce hiç Noel'de sinek görmemiştim; Sanat 102 dersinde hissetmemiz öğretildiği gibi, iki tanıdık şeyin beklenmedik şekilde yan yana gelmesinin gerçeküstülüğünü hissederek ona vurdum. Gelecek bu olacaktı.
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Lorrie Moore _ A Gate at the Stairs
The piece was like an elegant interrogation made of tangled yarn, a query from a well-dressed man in a casket, not yet dead. It proceeded slowly, like a careful equation, and then not: if x = y, if major = minor, if death equals part of life and life part of death, then what is the sum of the infinite notes of this one phrase? It asked, answered, reasked, its moody asking a refinement of reluctance or dislike.
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Lorrie Moore _ A Gate at the Stairs
Her parents had gone from a couple who would be different, who would be better than anyone, who were determined to be better than most, to a couple who would be different because they were worse.
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Lorrie Moore _ A Gate at the Stairs
A veteran of the gender wars.
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Lorrie Moore _ A Gate at the Stairs
What I really felt was this: chopped down like a tree, a new feeling, and I was realizing that all new feelings from here on in would probably be bad ones. Surprises would no longer be good. And feelings might take on actual physical form, like those sad fish lips, a mouth speared into a gasping silence, or worse.
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Lorrie Moore _ A Gate at the Stairs
I once murdered someone and American Express covered everything.
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Lorrie Moore _ A Gate at the Stairs
These were the sorts of notions that had been raised in all my classes, and we had chased them round and round like dogs maddened by their tails.
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Lorrie Moore _ A Gate at the Stairs
His eyes were caught in the headlights of something - foreign policy?
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Lorrie Moore _ A Gate at the Stairs
When misfortune accumulated, I could feel now, it strafed you to the thinness of a nightgown, sheared you to the sheerness of a slip.
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Lorrie Moore _ A Gate at the Stairs
For driving, a January thaw was always preferable to actual ice, but when it was over things froze more treacherously than before. And in its melting and condensing the roadside snow turned to clumps reminiscent of black-spotted cauliflower. Better never to have thawed.
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