A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
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the Douay-Rheims Version (DRV) of the Bible, which is not the King James Version (KJV) although the DRV is literally closer more often to the Latin Vulgate Version (LVV).
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DRV version of the Bible
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The calculation of the calendar date for Easter is no simple matter. This calculation has a special name, the Computus. No less a mathematician than Carl Friedrich Gauss came up with an algorithm for the computation. How
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Calendar date for Easter
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Electric shock therapy can destroy memory like dementia or death does, but, unlike dementia or death, you are left aware that it has been destroyed.
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Electric shock therapy
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the true foreword to A Moveable Feast: “This book contains material from the remises of my memory and of my heart. Even if the one has been tampered with and the other does not exist.”
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The foreword
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he writes that his memory has been tampered with, likely a reference to his recent visit to the Mayo clinic for shock therapy treatment, and that his heart no longer exists.
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1961
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Verlaine
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French symbolist poet
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“Larbaud
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French writer and poet
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Simenon
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French novelist who wrote Detective Maigret series
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Simenon when he was a crime reporter.
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He was a crime reporter.
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Ronald Firbank
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English novelist
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Belloc
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Ouida,
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English novelist
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Pascin
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Vorarlberg.
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Western most state of Austria
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One day, years later, I met Joyce who was walking along the Boulevard St.-Germain after having been to a matinee alone. He liked to listen to the actors, although he could not see them.
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James Joyce
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Schruns
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Rapallo
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In Genoa
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Dunning was Ralph Cheever Dunning, a poet who smoked opium and forgot to eat.
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Dunning
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Evan Shipman, who was a very fine poet and who truly did not care if his poems were ever published,
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Shipman
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Schruns, which was a sunny market town with sawmills, stores, inns and a good, year-around hotel called the Taube where we lived.
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Schruns
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There was no desperate inflation and poverty there as there had been in Germany.
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German inflation
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The most famous of these high base huts were the Lindauer-Hütte, the Madlener-Haus and the Wiesbadener-Hütte.
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Famous high base huts
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praise to the face was open disgrace.
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Praise to the face...
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He wanted me to read the new book, The Great Gatsby, as soon as he could get his last and only copy back from someone he had loaned it to. To hear him talk of it, you would never know how very good it was, except that he had the shyness about it that all non-conceited writers have when they have done something very fine,
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The Great Gatsby
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Michael Arlen,
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Lady Diana Manners
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Baron von Blixen