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Animals Drunk and Sober, Famished and Dead in the Fiction of Jean Stafford
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Once to prove to herself that she was not a crybaby, she took a still live wood mouse from a trap and drowned it in a milk bottle half full of water, rejoicing brutishly in the swimming and the squealing which became slower and fainter and at last ceased while the small speckled body swelled and
the sharp teeth showed themselves in an angry grin.
Was there anything in the world, he wondered, that did not make you think of something else?
Jean Stafford, The Mountain Lion
They drank whiskey high-balls made with ginger ale, out of glasses decorated on the outside by a horse's head which, on the ...
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Chang Hsueh-liang, 101; world's longest-held political prisoner
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Jiang Congratulates Chang Hsueh-liang on 100th Birthday
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