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  1. John Irving _ A Prayer For Owen Meany

    And if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in her rose garden, they were cocktail dresses that she no longer intended to wear to cocktail parties. Even in her rose garden, she did not want to be seen underdressed. If the dresses got too dirty from gardening, she threw them out. When my mother suggested to her that she might have them cleaned, my grandmother said, 'What? And have those people at the cleaners wonder what I was doing in a dress to make it that dirty?' From my grandmother I learned that logic is relative.
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  2. John Irving _ A Prayer For Owen Meany

    book is always in motion – from the general to the specific, from the particular to the whole, and back again. Good reading
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