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SIGNS OF LIFE FROM BOOK OF DEAD
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I haven't put him in my dead book yet. A hard word, "dead." A word
you want to camouflage with softer syllables deceased, departed,
passed on.
But dead is the right word because dead is hard people you love
not in the next room, or the next town, or on the telephone saying,
"Do you know that I'm the only one in the world who can call you
daughter?"
My irreverently named book began not as a spiritual reminder that
none of us is long for this world, but as an organizational tool a
place to keep the memorial cards you get at wakes and funerals and
put in your pocket and go home and don't know ...
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Petronius Satyricon.(Review)
Magazine article from: New Criterion
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Maecenas and Petronius' Trimalchio Maecenatianus.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Ancient Narrative
; This paper examines Petronius' use of Maecenas as a model for specific...good fortune seems to have informed Petronius' characterization of Trimalchio...in short, someone very much like Petronius himself. Petronius understood the...
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Texaco and Marathon move forward on $400 million Deepwater project in Gulf of Mexico Compliant Tower Design Selected for "Petronius" Project.
Business Wire
; ...ahead with design and construction of "Petronius," a $400 million deepwater Gulf of...million barrels of oil equivalent. The Petronius project will directly create more than...major contracts being awarded on the Petronius project are: - J. Ray McDermott, Morgan...
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Roman fever: Petronius' Satyricon and Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Ancient Narrative
; ...learning.' So saying he put into my hands Petronius Arbiter." Tobias Smollet, The Adventures...Random The first time Gore Vidal read Petronius, "an electrical current was switched...proudly proclaims: "my origins are in Petronius and Apuleius, two writers no American...
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The reception and use of Petronius: Petronian pseudepigraphy and imitation.
Magazine article from: Ancient Narrative
; Petronius has, in many ways, survived his suicide...The broadest modern acquaintance with Petronius and the Satyrica perhaps comes through...twentieth century, acquaintance with Petronius was, if not so widespread, far from...
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Petronius rediuiuus et Helias Tripolanensis id est Petronius rediuiuus quod Heliae Tripolanensis videtur necnon fragmenta (alia) Heliae Tripolanensis.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
; Petronius rediuiuus et Helias Tripolanensis id est Petronius rediuiuus quod Heliae Tripolanensis videtur necnon fragmenta...number of classical authors, including some, such as Petronius, who were not much known in the Middle Ages. One complete...
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Texaco Begins Production From Petronius Project in Gulf of Mexico.
Business Wire
; ...production of oil and natural gas from the Petronius project located in the Gulf of Mexico...of New Orleans. Installation of the Petronius platform was completed in early May...interest and Texaco is operator. The Petronius project, located in 1,754 feet of...
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The sublime and the bovine: Petronius' Satyricon and Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Ancient Narrative
; ...precursors, including a Roman author, Petronius, who wrote his novel Satyricon under...correspondence contains several references to Petronius and the Satyricon. In a letter to Emmanuel...few months later, his understanding of Petronius becomes more profound (4 September 1852...
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The Satyrica of Petronius as a Roman palimpsest.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Ancient Narrative
; ...part of this paper that the modern 'Petronius' was invented in the late 19th century...scholars. Albert Collignon, too, believed Petronius to be an original author and merely suggested...Natural reason long ago revealed that Petronius had a Greek model,' but he didn't...
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Return of Petronius output has limited impact on spot trade in US Gulf.
Newspaper article from: The Oil Daily
; ...Repairs to the Hurricane Ivan-damaged Petronius platform in the Gulf of Mexico have...of the platform, said Tuesday the Petronius is producing at about 75% of its pre-Ivan levels. The deepwater Petronius field is located in Viosca Knoll...
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