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Michael Chenchard is 50% done with In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
“He inches forward, pounds the walk, roars reports of weather for the middle of the night. “Know what it was at one? Eighty-seven. June, not hell we’re in, but eighty-seven. I ain’t even eighty-seven.”

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William H. Gass
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Michael Chenchard
Michael Chenchard is 29% done with In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
“It was like I was setting out to do something special and big—like a knight setting out—worth remembering. I dreamed”

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William H. Gass
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Michael Chenchard
Michael Chenchard is 26% done with In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
now and then his writing will take on this rushing momentum and it will be so masterful
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Michael Chenchard
Michael Chenchard is 24% done with In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
being wrapped in the dough, there's something comforting, romantic even, about it.
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Michael Chenchard
Michael Chenchard is on page 106 of 152 of A Single Man
jawed greeds, dartingly vivid intuitions, old crusty-shelled rock-gripping
obstinacies, deep-down sparkling undiscovered secrets, ominous protean
organisms motioning mysteriously, perhaps warningly, toward the surface
light.
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Michael Chenchard
Michael Chenchard is on page 106 of 152 of A Single Man
Just as George and the
others are thought of, for convenience, as individual entities, so you may
think of a rock pool as an entity; though, of course, it is not. The waters of
its consciousness – so to speak – are swarming with hunted anxieties, grim-
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Michael Chenchard
Michael Chenchard is on page 80 of 152 of A Single Man
‘Well, never mind. . . . There’s another thing about going back Home –
it’s the Past; and that’s all tied up with Nan, too. Sort of going back to the
place where I turned off the road, do you see?’
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Michael Chenchard
Michael Chenchard is on page 80 of 152 of A Single Man
I’ve always thought of her as being sort of like a
road – I mean, she leads somewhere. With her, I’ll never lose my way. . . .
Do you know what I’m trying to say?’
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Michael Chenchard
Michael Chenchard is on page 66 of 152 of A Single Man
a narrow uphill street which at night is
packed so tight with cars parked on both sides of it that two drivers can
scarcely squeeze past each other.

parallelism to the narrowness of his house
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Michael Chenchard
Michael Chenchard is on page 53 of 152 of A Single Man
But Jim was lucky at the end; the only time when luck really
counts.
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Michael Chenchard
Michael Chenchard is on page 52 of 152 of A Single Man
We’ve reduced the things of
the material plane to mere symbolic conveniences. And why? Because
that’s the essential first step. Until the material plane has been defined and
relegated to its proper place, the mind can’t ever be truly free.
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Michael Chenchard
Michael Chenchard is on page 52 of 152 of A Single Man
And what’s our way of life? A building code which demands
certain measurements, certain utilities and the use of certain apt materials;
no more and no less. Everything else you’ve got to supply for yourself. But
just try telling that to the Europeans! It scares them to death. . . . The truth
is, our way of life is far too austere for them.
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Michael Chenchard
Michael Chenchard is on page 49 of 152 of A Single Man
what was terrible was the fear
of annihilation. Now we have with us a far more terrible fear, the fear of
survival. Survival into a Rubble Age,
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Michael Chenchard
Michael Chenchard is on page 46 of 152 of A Single Man
Isn’t it something to
know that you belong to one of the few professions in this country which
isn’t hopelessly corrupt?
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Michael Chenchard
Michael Chenchard is on page 41 of 152 of A Single Man
‘And I’ll tell you something else. A minority has its own kind of
aggression. It absolutely dares the majority to attack it. It hates the majority
– not without a cause, I grant you.
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Michael Chenchard
Michael Chenchard is on page 41 of 152 of A Single Man
But, the worst of it is, we now run into another liberal heresy. Because
the persecuting majority is vile, says the liberal, therefore the persecuted
minority must be stainlessly pure. Can’t you see what nonsense that is?
What’s to prevent the bad from being persecuted
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Michael Chenchard
Michael Chenchard is on page 39 of 152 of A Single Man
Because a minority is only thought of as a minority
when it constitutes some kind of a threat to the majority, real or imaginary.
And no threat is ever quite imaginary. Anyone here disagree with that? If
you do, just ask yourself: what would this particular minority do if it
suddenly became the majorit
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Michael Chenchard
Michael Chenchard is on page 28 of 152 of A Single Man
prudendy, permanendy, quirky spelling
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