The Firing Line
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Wildside Press
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
18.10.2024
Verlag
Wildside PressSeitenzahl
344
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/2 cm
Gewicht
559 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-55742-927-8
"It's really very classical," he said, "like the voyage of Ulysses; I, Ulysses, you the water nymph Calypso, drifting in that golden ship of Romance-"
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"Calypso was a land nymph," she observed, absently, "if accuracy interests you as much as your monologue."
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Checked and surprised, he began to laugh at his own discomfiture; and she, elbow on the gunwale, small hand cupping her chin, watched him with an expressionless directness that very soon extinguished his amusement and left him awkward in the silence.
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"I've tried my very best to be civil and agreeable," he said after a moment. "Is it really such an effort for you to talk to a man?"
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"Not if I am interested," she said quietly.
p
"Calypso was a land nymph," she observed, absently, "if accuracy interests you as much as your monologue."
p
Checked and surprised, he began to laugh at his own discomfiture; and she, elbow on the gunwale, small hand cupping her chin, watched him with an expressionless directness that very soon extinguished his amusement and left him awkward in the silence.
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"I've tried my very best to be civil and agreeable," he said after a moment. "Is it really such an effort for you to talk to a man?"
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"Not if I am interested," she said quietly.
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