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2 days ago · Fiction, 1957. Merrill gained prominence in the 1950s and ’60s as a poet. His father, Charles, was a founder of the brokerage firm Merrill Lynch, a man of enormous wealth and influence whose ...
1 day ago · On the side of the car where I sat—. His face swimming close to the glass. Between us, window he knocked on. With the knuckles of his hand, a window. That I, too startled to do anything. But ...
1 day ago · Rain comes in a variety of fragrances. There’s fresh rain, clean rain, spring rain, November rain and soothing rain. I imagine soothing rain is the opposite of non-soothing rain that comes with tornado warning sirens. The last thing you’d want to do is mix up your rain fragrances. The scientific name for the smell of rain is petrichor.
5 days ago · Hersey uses the image of vaporized bodies etched into walls twice in the book, and it is one of the most famous images associated with his work. Using this image, Bradbury makes clear that a ...
4 days ago · There’s an old record player and radio, wooden and sleek from the top with rusted knobs to increase the volume and change channels. I wonder how many times Dadababa has sat by it and spent his mornings or afternoons listening to the tunes of his time. I wonder what it felt like for him, the world he knew and the places he had seen.
5 days ago · Walking outside after a rainstorm you will hear people saying, “Oh, the air smells so fresh” or “I love the smell of rain on the pavement”. The smell of rain has never made someone wish they were curled inside with a book to avoid being drenched. Instead, it makes us more appreciative of what it can bring to our tiny corner of the world ...
1 day ago · Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola, John Milius, and Michael Herr, is loosely inspired by the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War.
