A Leak In The Safe

The Muddy Tracks of a Wild Beast "He is trying, with the tiny mechanism in him which is not completely out of order, to share his obsessions." André Breton I am 67 years old, btw, a child of the 20th Century

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Vincent Alban for The New York Times

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she doesn't change but she reveals

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Frédéric Mistral: Mémoires et Recits by Frédéric Mistral: woman outside with a basket of flowers (insert after p. 192) 1937

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Vincent Alban for The New York Times

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But later, I wondered if there was more to it than this , and if it wasn't, in fact, a kind of warning, or even a threat aimed at me personally - a tipping ajar of the trapdoor above the pit, a glimpse into the hellishness of what had befallen Lucie, and the mind of the person who had done it.

-- Richard Lloyd Parry

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lost in the supermarket

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I was afraid of what she was going to ask

I was afraid of what I was going to answer

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curiosity felt no different than desire -- Lillian Li

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first bite

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american merge

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Vincent Alban for The New York Times

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What animal lover would not have become a little upset at seeing a uniformed policeman trip over his frozen pet?

-- Richard Lloyd Parry

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Greta Garbo on a vintage postcard

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the night New Glenn went up

Credit…Nasaspaceflight.com, via Reuters

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Maria Alquilar, Maquette for Bien Venida y Vaya Con Dios, 1985, ceramic, copper foil, wire, paint and plastic, overall: 29 x 18 3⁄8 x 13 3⁄8 in. (73.7 x 46.7 x 34.0 cm.) top: 23 x 16 1⁄4 x 9 1⁄8 in. (58.4 x 41.3 x 23.2 cm.) bottom: 12 3⁄4 x 18 3⁄8 x 13 3⁄8 in. (32.4 x 46.7 x 34.0 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the General Services Administration, Art-in-Architecture Program, 1990.69A-B

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lot

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big gulp