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Jewish Maghrib Jukebox.

"Winter Ocean

Many-maned scud-thumper, tub
of male whales, maker of worn wood, shrub-
ruster, sky-mocker, rave!
portly pusher of waves, wind-slave."

--John Updike

Gaddis to Markson.

" 'Per week. Yes. As to the amount of strain upon the intellect now. Was you thinking at all of poetry?' Mr Wegg inquired, musing.

'Would it come dearer?' Mr Boffin asked.

'It would come dearer,' Mr Wegg returned. 'For when a person comes to grind off poetry night after night, it is but right he should expect to be paid for its weakening effect on his mind.' "

--Our Mutual Friend

"For this defining emotion of the Democratic self-styled ‘resistance’ we can borrow the Slovenian word hrepenenje: an intense, quasi-nostalgic yearning for that which has not happened."