The American novel tends to rest in contradictions and among extreme ranges of experience. When it attempts to resolve contradicti
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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it--an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it;
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The jeweled stripes on the window ran straight down when the train stopped and got more and more oblique as it speeded up. The whe
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Our relations to each other are oblique and casual.
Besides, our action on each other, good as well as evil, is so incidental and at random, that we can seldom hear the acknowledgmen
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Street lamps come out, and lean at corners, awry,
Casting black shadows, oblique and intense....
Casting black shadows, oblique and intense....
The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head--no intricate game o
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then from Pole to Pole
He views in bredth, and without longer pause ...
He views in bredth, and without longer pause ...
All's oblique;
There's nothing level in our cursed natures ...
There's nothing level in our cursed natures ...
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