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Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover.

A noite cai. Ou caiu a noite. Por que a noite cai, em vez de subir como o raiar do dia? Contudo, se você olhar para o leste, ao pôr-do-sol, pode ver a noite subindo, não caindo; a escuridão se eleva em direção ao céu, subindo do horizonte, como um sol negro atrás de uma coberta de nuvem. Como fumaça de chamas que não se vê, uma linha de fogo pouco abaixo do horizonte, um fogo em meio à mata ou uma cidade em chamas. Talvez a noite caia porque é pesada, uma cortina espessa puxada sobre os olhos. Cobertor de lã. Eu gostaria de poder ver no escuro, melhor do que vejo.

I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.

whist players, and in a few moments after seated with the

Es una verdad universalmente conocida que un hombre soltero poseedor de una gran fortuna necesita una esposa.

It began with the tea,' the Hatter replied.

I knew they made that up, I knew it was wrong, and they left things out, too, but there was no way of checking.

Una rata que está dentro de un laberinto es libre de ir a cualquier sitio, siempre que permanezca dentro del laberinto.

mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought—frequently

But this problem rather pales in comparison to the other problem, which is that both T-shirts are embossed with huge Confederate flags. Printed over the flag are the words HERITAGE NOT HATE. Oh no you didn’t, Radar says when I show him why we’re laughing. Ben Starling, you better not have bought your token black friend a racist shirt.

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the

Sólo el amor más profundo me hará contraer matrimonio es poreso por lo que terminaré soltera.

The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy. Katczinsky

We lived in the gaps between the stories.

All this is pure speculation. I don't really know what men used to say. I had only their words for it. I

Women did what strawberry plants did before they shot out their thin vines: the quality of the green changed. Then the vine threads came, then the buds. By the time the white petals died and the mint-colored berry poked out, the leaf shine was gilded tight and waxy.

After his embarrassment and his unreasoning joy he was consumed with wonder at her presence.

promised minute to return to my window, but not much more.

had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now. When a woman has five grown-up daughters,

You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves.