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Between 1840 and 1845, Edgar Allan Poe created the model to which so many writers after him adhered. It was Poe who gave the world Auguste Dupin and his unnamed Boswell, thus establishing what might be called the Formula Detective
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“But if we decide contextually specific questions of synonymy on the basis of the total semantic range of each word, any synonymy in any context is virtually impossible.”
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“It is strange,' he said at last. 'I had longed to enter the world of men. Now I see it filled with sorrow, with cruelty and treachery, with those who would destroy all around them.'
'Yet, enter it you must,' Gwydion answered, 'for it is a destiny laid on each of us. True, you have seen these things. But there are equal parts of love and joy.”
― The Black Cauldron
'Yet, enter it you must,' Gwydion answered, 'for it is a destiny laid on each of us. True, you have seen these things. But there are equal parts of love and joy.”
― The Black Cauldron
“O help/ Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, help. Thou art/ Mine only hope.
-Leia Organa”
― William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope
-Leia Organa”
― William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope
“The most central truth to the creation account is that this world is a place for God's presence.”
― The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate (Volume 2)
― The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate (Volume 2)
“Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.”
― The Black Cauldron
― The Black Cauldron
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