Why is it never part of Reader’s active memory that Helen of Troy was the daughter of a god and was hatched from an egg? (221)
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Though Homer insists she was mortal. (222)
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Aquinas knew almost nothing about history. (223)
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Maigret. (224)
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Does it go without saying that this upstairs presence would accentuate Protagonist’s sense of his aloneness? (225)
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Does it go without saying that he deplores being alone? (226)
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Vladimir Mayakovsky shot himself in the head. He may have been playing Russian roulette rather than definitely intending suicide.
But in either event had put on a clean shirt first. (227)
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Mênin aeïde, thea. (228)
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George Gissing’s first wife became a prostitute. His second wife went mad. (229)
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No one nodding to him on the street in passing after all? Something more categorical? (230)
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I am completely alone here now? (231)
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Helen was not the first petticoat that caused a war. Says Burton in the Anatomy. (232)
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