Critical Survey of Short Fiction: Italo Calvino - Louise Erdrich |
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... lives and to hide the stone there . Although the girl does not know the story behind the promise , it is clear that even though she is leaving , the shadow of her mother accompanies her . The daughter gets rid of the stone when she ar ...
... lives and to hide the stone there . Although the girl does not know the story behind the promise , it is clear that even though she is leaving , the shadow of her mother accompanies her . The daughter gets rid of the stone when she ar ...
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... lives . In fact , the poem seems to parody the idea of a religion of love ; the poet , although he wor- ships the daisy as the God of Love's symbol , commits by his work heresy against the deity and must there- fore repent and do ...
... lives . In fact , the poem seems to parody the idea of a religion of love ; the poet , although he wor- ships the daisy as the God of Love's symbol , commits by his work heresy against the deity and must there- fore repent and do ...
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... lives as well as between those lives and their longings . Trapped in routines as restricting as any prison cell and often in marriages that seem little more than sexual battlefields , where even the hair curlers appear " bellicose ...
... lives as well as between those lives and their longings . Trapped in routines as restricting as any prison cell and often in marriages that seem little more than sexual battlefields , where even the hair curlers appear " bellicose ...
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