The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American VoiceFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 M08 21 - 336 pages From the author of Mystery Train and Lipstick Traces, an exhilarating and provocative investigation of the tangle of American identity |
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... hear . He shrugged again . " You know I'm not going to kill you , don't you ? " I said . He shook his head , but his eyes smiled . He might be a piece of shit but Jackson had some balls on him . Either that or he was more frightened of ...
... hear . Your hands are full of blood ; cease to do evil , learn to do well ; seek judgment . " " Fifty - three years ago , the Fourth of July was a proud day for our country , " the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison said on 4 July 1829 ...
... hear / imagining the throng of Selves / that make this nation one body of Prophecy . " This book is an attempt to travel through that throng of selves , to listen to what they say- and as much to attend to how they say what they say ...
... hear . And then what ? Then , if the chord is struck truly , " the throng of Selves / that make this nation one body of Prophecy " appears . For years now , since perhaps the end of the first Bush presi- dency , when Bill Clinton's ...
... takes stage directions from D. H. Lawrence : " At the bottom of the American soul was al- ways a dark suspense . " MASSACHUSETTS , WASHINGTON , D.C. Hear this word that the NEW YORK , WASHINGTON , D.C. , PENNSYLVANIA 17.
Contents
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Philip Roth and the Lost Republic | 41 |
Bill Pullmans Face | 101 |
Sheryl Lee as Laura Palmer | 147 |
David Thomas | 201 |
Kansas | 259 |
Acknowledgments | 305 |