The Book of Strange New Things
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the shortness of what you wrote
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Because he’s a Self-absorbed prick.
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learning the language
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Not. But he hasn’t told her what he’s doing, and doesn’t correct her erroneous assumptions.
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(Please tell me a little more about those,
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the weather,
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it’s gone haywire again.
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occasional gale f...
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We’re just not very good at planning for emergencies. Denial, I suppose.
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the wind.
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Graeme Stone.
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there was no hard news in any of them.
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Who’s the censor? That sort of review and judgment takes some considerable time and awareness.
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Hayes’s
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a moral mirror,
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it’s best if you’ve got a team of individuals that understand what it’s like to be in permanent … limbo.
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To have no other plans … nowhere else to go
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“A team of loners? Sounds like a contradiction in terms.” “It’s the Légion Étrangère is what it is.”
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serpent of Epidaurus,”
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“The end of a marriage is never a mutual decision,”
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“My guess is she wouldn’t be a happy bunny,” said Grainger. “This is not the place for a real woman.”
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Interesting observation
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He couldn’t picture her. Couldn’t even picture the yellow duvet, couldn’t even recall the precise hue.
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“Your lips,” she said, “are too dry. You’re not drinking enough.”
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“Remember to keep drinking,” she said. “Dehydration is a killer. And be careful in the sun. Don’t get burned like last time.”
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there was no real name.
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The human race would have been spared a great deal of grief and bloodshed
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I know, but I’d like to be helpful if I can.
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he was convinced she’d be less stressed if she had company, less spooked if someone of her own kind was at her side.
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Peterville,”
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Petersburg has both t AND s.
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Next week? = 7 earth days? Or three earth weeks?
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the air inside would be the same as the air outside,
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the floor would still be trampled earth.
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Haha - ewww yuck sick joke & a mean mock
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Simile - too extreme and not heloful
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Haha - which translation? Which language?
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Simile
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you’re not disgusted or irritated by the human animal.
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it was a failure to perceive their bodies as the norm, and his own as the aberration.
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So mile
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the King James,
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everyone who wasn’t a native speaker of Canaanite Hebrew, Koine Greek or Galilean Aramaic was at an equal disadvantage,
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100-percent-proof Jacobean
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Simile. Third alcohol simile in a row.
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“LurL iS LurL,” she stated. “We are we. God iS God.”
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