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  1. Joyce Carol Oates _ The Accursed

    This web of intricate connections
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  2. Joyce Carol Oates _ The Accursed

    yet the greening grasses and overarching elms and oaks, just beginning to come into leaf, gave the scene a picturesque air, like a fairy-tale dwelling;
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  3. Joyce Carol Oates _ The Accursed

    its somewhat austere and even forbidding limestone exterior,
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  4. Joyce Carol Oates _ The Accursed

    In so sick a society as ours how is it possible that any citizen is healthy, at all?
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  5. Joyce Carol Oates _ The Accursed

    of all psychic conditions, anxiety verging upon paranoia/hysteria is perhaps the most contagious, even among men.
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  6. Joyce Carol Oates _ The Accursed

    that I-I have not 'heard' . . . What is it?
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  7. Joyce Carol Oates _ The Accursed

    For The Accursed is intended as a work of inquiring moral complexity, and not a "sensationalist" rehashing of an old, dread scandal far better left to molder in the grave!
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  8. Joyce Carol Oates _ The Accursed

    grip of Paradox. A predatory bird with a great sharp beak and vicious talons-Paradox. To be in its grip is to suffer, yet so exquisitely, one might mistake the experience for a kind of ecstasy.
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  9. Joyce Carol Oates _ The Accursed

    went out for sports as others did, in an affable herd.
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  10. Joyce Carol Oates _ The Accursed

    Willy was more forceful, as Annabel seemed to glide;
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  11. Joyce Carol Oates _ The Accursed

    While Annabel possessed the sylphid grace of a fairy-tale princess, unstudied and seemingly spontaneous, yet with a dreamy air, Willy presented a dramatic contrast: brash, brusque, heavy-jawed, with eyes that engaged too directly, and too often ironically. Willy's considerable charm was at first obscured, to the superficial eye, by a certain stolidity in her figure, as in her character.
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  12. Joyce Carol Oates _ The Accursed

    For his part, the stranger was drifting in Annabel's direction, yet not very deliberately. As if, in some way, he were being drawn to her, by some {unconscious} motion or motive of Annabel herself. Why
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